Breaking up the Party
Britain is rightly known for its multicultural popular music — but these musical styles have frequently emerged in the face of legal attempts to suppress them.
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The year 2007 should have been the year that British grime music burst out from the underground. Drawing on the realities of urban life in Tony Blair’s Britain — as well as decades of black British creativity from dancehall to jungle — this new music had a network of musicians, MCs, and promoters, as well as the […]