This book tells the history of the London black music culture that emerged in post-colonial London at the end of the twentieth 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.
It conceives of the linked scenes around black music in London, from ska, reggae and soul in the 1970s, to Rare Groove and rave in the 1980s and Jungle and its offshoots in the 1990s, to dubstep a.
This book tells the history of the London black music culture that emerged in post-colonial London at the end of the twentieth 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
