Melville It's a London thing

How rare groove, acid house and jungle remapped the city
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3124-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Music and Society

This book tells the history of the London black music culture that emerged in post-colonial London at the end of the twentieth century; the people who made it, the racial and spatial politics of its development and change, and the part it played in founding London’s precious, embattled multiculture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Melville, Caspar

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures
List of plates
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: London’s sonic space
1 Hostile environment: London’s racial geography, 1960-80
2 Warehouse parties, rare groove and the diversion of space
3 From Ibiza to London: Brixton acid and rave
4 ‘A London Sum’ting Dis’: diaspora remixed in the urban jungle
Epilogue: music and the multicultural city
Appendix: interviews for the book
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Formerly a music journalist and editor of New Humanist magazine, Caspar Melville is a lecturer at SOAS, University of London, where he convenes the MA in Global Creative and Cultural Industries