Black Popular Music in Britain Since 1945

By: Jon Stratton, Nabeel Zuberi

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Paperback | 29 June 2017 | Edition Number 1

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Black Popular Music in Britain Since 1945 provides the first broad scholarly discussion of this music since 1990. The book critically examines key moments in the history of black British popular music from 1940s jazz to 1970s soul and reggae, 1990s Jungle and the sounds of Dubstep and Grime that have echoed through the 2000s. While the book offers a history it also discusses the ways black musics in Britain have intersected with the politics of race and class, multiculturalism, gender and sexuality, and debates about media and technology. Contributors examine the impact of the local, the ways that black music in Birmingham, Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester and London evolved differently and how black popular music in Britain has always developed in complex interaction with the dominant British popular music tradition. This tradition has its own histories located in folk music, music hall and a constant engagement, since the nineteenth century, with American popular music, itself a dynamic mixing of African-American, Latin American and other musics. The ideas that run through various chapters form connecting narratives that challenge dominant understandings of black popular music in Britain and will be essential reading for those interested in Popular Music Studies, Black British Studies and Cultural Studies.

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"Probiding a rich historical overview of black popular music in Britain after the Second World War, this collection focuses on the formative role of Afrodisaproric immigrants in shaping the shifting and contested terrain of what may be termed "British" music..."

- Tobias C. Van Veen, California State University, Northridge, USA

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