Since the turn of the 21st century, there have been several genres birthed from or nurtured in Black Britain: funky & tribal House, Afrobeats, Grime, Afro Swing, UK Drill, Road Rap, Trap etc. This pioneering book brings together diverse diasporan sounds in conversation. A valuable resource for those interested in the study of 21st century Black music and related cultures in Britain, this book goes incorporates the significant Black Atlantean, global interactions within Black music across time and space. It examines and proposes theoretical approaches, contributing to building a holistic appreciation of 21st century Black British music and its multidimensional nature.
This book proffers an academically curated, rigorous, holistic view of Black British music in the 21st century. Drawing from pioneering academics in the emerging field and industry professionals, the book will serve academic theory, as well as the views, debates and experiences of industry professionals in a complementary style that shows the synergies between diasporas and interdisciplinary conversations. The book is interdisciplinary. It draws from sociology, musicology and the emerging digital humanities fields, to make its arguments and develop a multi-disciplinary perspective about Black British music in the 21st century.
Author(s): Monique Charles, Mary Gani
Series: Liverpool Studies in the Politics of Popular Culture
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 280
City: Liverpool
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction – Monique Charles
Notes on Contributors
I. DIASPORA MUSIC AND THE BLACK ATLANTIC
1. Dub Come Save Me: The Diasporic Roots of UK Dub – Natalie Hyacinth
2. RWD Selecta! – Monique Charles
3. Black British Gospel Music: A Heritage and a Mishmash of Blackness (Practitioner Interview) – Lawrence ‘L. J.’ Johnson and Mary Gani
4. ‘Trap Atlantic’: A Photo-essay – Nathaniel Télémaque
II. TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY BLACK BRITISH MUSIC
5. Hopelessly in Love: Carroll Thompson’s Reflections and Insights into the Patriarchal Politics within the Lovers Rock Reggae Scene – Lisa Amanda Palmer
6. Jungle: A Critical Intersectional History – Julia Toppin
7. Place, People, and Pentecostal Habitus – Pauline E. Muir
8. Today’s Warriors: British Jazz in the Twenty-First Century – Caspar Melville
9. From London to Lagos – Michael Ugwu and Monique Charles
10. Mangrove Steelband – Hannah Charles and Andrew Facey
III. SOCIO-POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ISSUES
11. Sounds of Oppression: The Lost Inheritance of the UK Reggae and Soundsystem Culture – Daniel ‘Hussla D’ Johnson and Roy Wallace
12. Arresting Sounds: What UK Soundsystem Culture Teaches Us about Police Racism and Public Life – Lambros Fatsis
13. Grime Practice as Refusal: Examining the Gender and Sexual Politics of Grime Music and the Scene’s Black Male Dominance – Cheraine Donalea Scott
14. Public Pedagogies of Resistance: Black British Women, Talk Di Ting – Silhouette Bushay
15. Ways of Seeing: Black Male Identity(ies) and the Politics of Black Music – Poonam Madar
Index
