This book is a record of the 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. It tells the story of the linked Black musical scenes of
the city, from ska, reggae and soul in the 1970s, to rare groove and
rave in the 1980s and jungle and its offshoots in the 1990s, to dubstep
and grime of the 2000s. Melville argues that these demonstrate enough
common features to be thought of as one musical culture, an
Afro-diasporic continuum.
Core to this idea is that this dance
culture has been ignored in history and cultural theory and that it
should be thought of as a powerful and internationally significant form
of popular art. -- .
It's a London Thing : How Rare Groove, Acid House and Jungle Remapped the City - Caspar Melville
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