It's a London thing : how rare groove, acid house and jungle remapped the city / Caspar Melville.

• 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 sun'ting dis' : diaspora remixed in the urban jungle -- Epilogue : music and the multicultural city -- Appendix : interviews for the book.

• It's a London thing tells the story of the black music culture that emerged in post-colonial London at the end of the twentith century; the people who made it, the racial and spatial politics of its development and change and the part is played in founding London's precious, embattled multiculture. Melville explores the dance cultures of soul and reggae in the 1970s, rare groove and acid house in the 1980s and jungle and its off-shoots in the 1990s. The book argues that these demonstrate enough commonality to be seen as one musical continuum, and that the political and social importance of this form of popular art puts London frmly on the map as a global centre of this Afro-diasporic culture. -- 

Ämnesord

Svarta personer  (sao)

Musikhistoria  (sao)

Blacks  -- England -- London -- Music. (LCSH)

Popular music  -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Musik  -- sociala aspekter -- historia (sao)

Populärmusik  -- sociala aspekter -- historia (sao)

Black people  (LCSH)

Storbritannien  -- London (sao)

1900-talet  (sao)

2000-talet  (sao)

Genre

Analys och tolkning  (saogf)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Ijb Musikhistoria

Klassifikation

ML3492.8.L66 (LCC)

781.64089960421 (DDC)

Ijb (kssb/8)