It's a London thing : How rare groove, acid house and jungle remapped the city punk franco ISBN: 979-1094642627

ISBN: 979-1094642627

This thoroughly researched book is the first substantive attempt to break through some of the mystery surrounding Spiderland and the band that made it

With Exile in Guyville

Crowe spends his teens politely turning down the drugs and turning on his tape recorder

ISBN: 978-0826417442

It's a London thing : How rare groove, acid house and jungle remapped the city punk franco ISBN: 979-1094642627Author: Caspar Melville This book is a record of the 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 Londons precious, embattled multiculture. It tells the story of the linked Black musical scenes of the city, from ska, reggae and soul in the 1970s, to rare groove and rave in the 1980s