[ecrea] New book: Black Popular Music in Britain since 1945, edited by Jon Stratton and Nabeel Zuberi

Black Popular Music in Britain since 1945 provides the first broad 
scholarly discussion of this music since 1990. The book critically 
examines key moments in the history of black British popular music from 
1940s jazz to 1970s soul and reggae, 1990s Jungle and the sounds of 
Dubstep and Grime that have echoed through the 2000s. While the book 
offers a history it also discusses the ways black musics in Britain have 
intersected with the politics of race and class, multiculturalism, 
gender and sexuality, and debates about media and technology. 
Contributors examine the impact of the local, the ways that black music 
in Birmingham, Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester and London evolved 
differently and how black popular music in Britain has always developed 
in complex interaction with the dominant British popular music 
tradition. This tradition has its own histories located in folk music, 
music hall and a constant engagement, since the nineteenth century, with 
American popular music, itself a dynamic mixing of African-American, 
Latin American and other musics. The ideas that run through various 
chapters form connecting narratives that challenge dominant 
understandings of black popular music in Britain and will be essential 
reading for those interested in Popular Music Studies, Black British 
Studies and Cultural Studies.

Contents:

Black popular music in Britain since 1945: an introduction
Jon Stratton and Nabeel Zuberi

Race, Identity and the meaning of jazz in 1940s Britain
Catherine Tackley

Melting pot: the making of black British music in the 1950s and 1960s
Jon Stratton

Revisiting Britain’s ‘afro trend’ of the 1960s and 1970s: musical 
journeys, fusions, and African stereotypes
Markus Coester

Britfunk: black British popular music, identity and the recording 
industry in the early 1980s Robert Strachan

Black music and cultural exchange in Bristol
Rehan Hyder

Bass culture: an alternative soundtrack to Britishness
Mykaell Riley

‘Men cry too:’ black masculinities and the feminisation of lovers rock 
in the UK
Lisa Amanda Palmer

The sounding of the Notting Hill carnival: music as space, place and 
territory
Julian Henriques and Beatrice Ferrara

Voodoo rage: blacktronica from the north
Hillegonda C. Rietveld

Break/flow/escape/capture: the energy and impotence of the hardcore 
continuum
Jeremy Gilbert

‘New throat fe chat’: the voices and media of MC culture
Nabeel Zuberi


Dr Nabeel Zuberi
Media, Film and Television
University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019 (18 Symonds Street)
Auckland 1142
Aotearoa / New Zealand

Tel: (+64 9) 923 7722
Fax: (+64 9) 373 8764
http://artsfaculty.auckland.ac.nz/staff/?UPI=nzub001
twitter: @nabeelz




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