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Bass, mids, tops : an oral history of soundsystem culture / Joe Muggs & Brian David Stevens.

Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3918.R44 M84 2019
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Muggs, Joe, author.
Contributor:
Stevens, Brian David (Photographer), photographer.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Electronic dance music--Social aspects--England.
Electronic dance music.
Reggae music--Social aspects--England.
Reggae music.
Disc jockeys--England--Interviews.
Disc jockeys.
Rave culture--England.
Rave culture.
Sound--Recording and reproducing.
Sound.
Music and technology.
Reggae music--Social aspects.
Subculture.
Social aspects.
England.
Genre:
Interviews.
Physical Description:
503 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Distribution:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press.
Other Title:
Oral history of soundsystem culture
Place of Publication:
London, UK : Strange Attractor Press, 2019.
Summary:
An oral history of the UK's sound system culture, featuring interviews with Dubmaster Dennis Bovell, Skream, Youth, Norman Jay MBE, Adrian Sherwood, Mala, and others. In the years following the arrival of the Windrush generation, the UK's sound system culture would become the most important influence on contemporary pop music since rock and roll. Pumped through towering, home-built speakers, often directly onto the thronged streets of events like the Notting Hill Carnival, the pulsating bass lines of reggae, dub, rave, jungle, trip hop, dubstep, and grime have shaped the worlds of several generations of British youth culture but have often been overlooked by historians obsessed with swinging London, punk, and Britpop. This oral history, consisting of new interviews conducted by respected dance music writer Joe Muggs, and accompanied by dramatic portraits by Brian David Stevens, presents the story of the bassline of Britain, in the words of those who lived and shaped it. Features interviews with Dubmaster Dennis Bovell, Norman Jay MPE, Youth, Adrian Sherwood, Skream, Rinse FM's Sarah Lockhart and many others.
Contents:
Interviews: Dennis Bovell
Norman Jay
Adrian Sherwood
Youth
Tony Thorpe
RobSmith
George Evelyn
Nicolette
Dego
DJ Storm
Jumpin Jack Frost
Krust
Noodles
Sarah Lockhart
Zed Bias
Terror Danjah
Skream
Mala
Kromester
T.Williams
CoolyG
Toddla T
Samrai
BarelyLegal
Shy One.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781907222771
1907222774
OCLC:
1055684454

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