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It's a London thing : How rare groove, acid house and jungle remapped the city /

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 multicul...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Melville, Caspar (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Series:Music and society (Series)
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : London's sonic space
  • Hostile environment : London's racial geography, 1960-80
  • Warehouse parties, rare groove and the diversion of space
  • From Ibiza to London : Brixton acid and rave
  • 'A London sum'ting dis' : diaspora remixed in the urban jungle
  • Epilogue : music and the multicultural city.