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Black Popular Music in Britain Since 1945

by Jon Stratton, Nabeel Zuberi

Popular music, history and criticismBlacks, great britainBlacks, musicPopular musicHistory and criticismBlacksMusicMusic, british

Race, identity and the meaning of jazz in 1940s Britain / C. Tackley - Melting pot: the making of black British music in the 1950s / J. Stratton - Revisiting Britain's 'Afro trend' of the 1960s and 1970s: musical journeys, fusions and African stereotypes / M. Coester - Britfunk: black British popular music, identity and the recording industry in the early 1980s / R/ Strachan - Black music and cultural exchange in Bristol / R. Hyder - Bass culture: an alternative soundtrack to Britishness / M. Riley - 'Men cry too': black masculinities and the feminisation of lovers rock in the US / L.A. Palmer - The sounding of the Notting Hill carnival: music as space, place and territory / J. Henriques & B. Ferrara - Voodoo rage: blacktronica from the north / H.C. Rietveld - Break/flow/escape/capture: the energy and impotence of the hardcore continuum / J. Gilbert - 'New throat fe chat': the voices and media of MC Culture / N. Zuberi.

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