Hold tight : black masculinity, millennials and the meaning of grime / Jeffrey Boakye.
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TextPublisher: London : Influx Press, 2018Description: 400 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781910312414 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Electronica (Music) -- Great Britain -- History and criticism | Blacks -- Great Britain -- Music -- History and criticism | Masculinity in music | Music | MusicDDC classification: 781.6'48'0941 Summary: Celebrating over 50 key songs that make up grime's DNA, Jeffrey Boakye explores the meaning of the music and why it has such resonance in the UK. He also examines the representation of masculinity in the music and the media that covers it. Both a loving critique of grime and an investigation into life as a black man in Britain today, this book is an electrifying and wonderfully confident debut from a music and culture critic with a very bright future ahead of him.
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Celebrating over 50 key songs that make up grime's DNA, Jeffrey Boakye explores the meaning of the music and why it has such resonance in the UK. He also examines the representation of masculinity in the music and the media that covers it. Both a loving critique of grime and an investigation into life as a black man in Britain today, this book is an electrifying and wonderfully confident debut from a music and culture critic with a very bright future ahead of him.
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