HOLD TIGHT is the book that kick started the 'Grime Library'. Bursting
into bookshops in July 2017 to rave reviews and a sold out event at
Rough Trade East, HOLD TIGHT paved the way for Grime-related books such
as Wiley's Eskiboy (Penguin 2017), Dan Hancox's Inner City Pressure (4th
Estate 2018), and DJ Target's Grime Kids (Trapeze 2018, now being made
into a television series). This new edition of HOLD TIGHT features new
chapters for 2018, a brand new introduction from Boakye and a brand new
cover.
Celebrating over sixty key songs that make up Grime's
DNA, Jeffrey Boakye explores the meaning of the music and why it has
such resonance in the UK. Boakye also examines the representation of
masculinity in the music and the media that covers it. Both a love
letter to Grime and an investigation into life as a black man in Britain
today, HOLD TIGHT is insightful, very funny and stacked with sentences
you'll want to pull up and read again and again.
Hold Tight : Black Masculinity, Millennials and the Meaning of Grime - Jeffrey Boakye
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£9.99