Inner city pressure : the story of grime / Dan Hancox.
Publisher: London : William Collins, 2019Description: 338 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 43834ISBN: 9780008257163 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Rap (Music) -- Great Britain | Rap musicians -- Great Britain -- Interviews | Hip-hop -- Great Britain | MusicDDC classification: 781.649 HAN LOC classification: ML3531 | .H3 2019Summary: The year 2000. Making beats on stolen software, spitting lyrics on tower block rooftops and beaming out signals from pirate radio aerials, a group of teenagers raised on UK garage, American hip-hop and Jamaican reggae stumble upon a dazzling new genre. Against all odds, these young MCs will grow up to become some of the UK's most famous musicians, scoring number one records and dominating British pop culture for years to come. But getting there won't be easy. Successive governments will attempt to control their music, their behaviour and even their clothes. The media will demonise them and the police will shut down their clubs. Drawn from over a decade of in-depth interviews and research with all the key MCs, DJs and industry players, this book tells the remarkable story of how a group of outsiders from the margins of urban life went on to create a genre that has become a British institution.| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, PITCHFORK, NPR, METRO AND HERALD SCOTLAND BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2018
'The definitive grime biography' NME
'A landmark genre history' Pitchfork
Beginning at the start of the new millennium in the council estates of inner London, Inner City Pressure tells the full story of grime, Britain's most exciting musical revolution since punk. Against seemingly insurmountable odds, grime's teenage pioneers sent out a signal from the pirate radio aerials and crumbling estates of London's poorest boroughs that would, 15 years later, resonate as the universal sound of youthful rebellion, as big in the suburbs as in the inner city.
By 2018, the likes of Dizzee Rascal, Wiley and Skepta have long since become household names. But have the conditions that produced this music now gone forever? What happens to those living on the margins when those margins become ever-smaller spaces? And what happens to a rebellious, outsider sound when it is fully accepted by the pop cultural mainstream? Inner City Pressure tells the astonishing story of a generation dancing, fighting and rioting against the forces gentrifying the capital.
Originally published: 2018.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The year 2000. Making beats on stolen software, spitting lyrics on tower block rooftops and beaming out signals from pirate radio aerials, a group of teenagers raised on UK garage, American hip-hop and Jamaican reggae stumble upon a dazzling new genre. Against all odds, these young MCs will grow up to become some of the UK's most famous musicians, scoring number one records and dominating British pop culture for years to come. But getting there won't be easy. Successive governments will attempt to control their music, their behaviour and even their clothes. The media will demonise them and the police will shut down their clubs. Drawn from over a decade of in-depth interviews and research with all the key MCs, DJs and industry players, this book tells the remarkable story of how a group of outsiders from the margins of urban life went on to create a genre that has become a British institution.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Prologue Don't Hold Him Back! (p. 1)
- 1 The City and the City (p. 9)
- 2 In the Roots (p. 33)
- 3 The New Ice Age (p. 57)
- 4 The Last of the Pirates (p. 81)
- 5 The Mainstream and the Manor (p. 101)
- 6 Grime Waves and the Respect Agenda (p. 123)
- 7 Neighbourhood Nationalism (p. 149)
- 8 Shutdown (p. 165)
- 9 Diy and Redemption Songs (p. 185)
- 10 We Run the Streets Today (p. 209)
- 11 Gentrification and the Manor Remade (p. 231)
- 12 A True Urban Renaissance (p. 247)
- 13 The Real Prime Ministers (p. 271)
- Epilogue Back Your City (p. 295)
- Notes (p. 307)
- Acknowledgements (p. 319)
- List of Images (p. 321)
- Index (p. 323)
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