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It's a London thing : how rare groove, acid house and jungle remapped the city / Caspar Melville.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Melville, Caspar, author.
- Series:
- Music and society (Series)
- Music and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Black people--England--London--Music.
- Black people.
- Popular music--England--London--History--20th century.
- Popular music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 271 pages, viii pages of plates) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- This volume tells the history of the London black music culture that emerged in post-colonial London at the end of the 20th century; the people who made it, the racial and spatial politics of its development and change, and the part it played in founding London's precious, embattled multiculture.
- Contents:
- 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 sum'ting dis' : diaspora remixed in the urban jungle
- Epilogue : music and the multicultural city.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 16, 2026).
- ISBN:
- 9781526131263
- 1526131269
- 9781526131249
- 1526131242
- OCLC:
- 1128387314
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