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Sounds Like London: 100 Years of Black Music in the Capital de Lloyd Bradley

Sounds Like London: 100 Years of Black Music in the Capital

Autor Lloyd Bradley
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 aug 2013

Considerăm că forța acestui volum rezidă în mărturiile directe și studiile de caz care documentează un secol de transformări urbane prin sunet. Sounds Like London nu este doar o cronică a genurilor muzicale, ci o analiză riguroasă a modului în care comunitățile de imigranți din Commonwealth au redefinit cultura britanică a tineretului. Autorul ne poartă prin locații emblematice — de la petrecerile blues din Brixton până la rave-urile din depozitele de la King's Cross — demonstrând cum muzica a servit drept punte vitală către „acasă” și, simultan, ca motor de inovare socială.

Această lucrare extinde cadrul propus de Black Popular Music in Britain Since 1945 de Jon Stratton, aducând date noi despre perioada interbelică și oferind o perspectivă mai intimă asupra personajelor care au construit scena muzicală. Dacă în Bass Culture, Lloyd Bradley s-a concentrat pe ascensiunea globală a muzicii reggae, în Sounds Like London el integrează această experiență într-un context mult mai vast, cuprinzând jazz-ul, soul-ul și curentele contemporane precum grime. Stilul este precis și documentat, evitând generalizările și ancorând fiecare capitol în realitățile socio-politice ale Londrei. Contribuțiile unor figuri precum Trevor Nelson sau Russell Henderson oferă o validitate istorică pe care puține alte studii culturale o ating, transformând lectura într-o experiență de cercetare imersivă.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781846687617
ISBN-10: 1846687616
Pagini: 432
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 134 x 216 x 34 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Serpent's Tail
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricărui cititor interesat de etnomuzicologie și de istoria socială a Londrei. Veți câștiga o înțelegere profundă a modului în care migrația a modelat identitatea britanică modernă. Este o resursă esențială pentru profesioniștii din industriile creative și mediul academic, oferind o perspectivă rară asupra influenței afro-caraibiene asupra culturii pop globale.

Despre autor

Lloyd Bradley este un autor și jurnalist britanic de renume, specializat în cultura neagră și muzica de origine jamaicană. Cu o formare neconvențională de bucătar clasic, el a devenit una dintre cele mai autoritare voci în critica muzicală, fiind autorul bestsellerului Bass Culture (cunoscut și sub titlul This Is Reggae Music). Experiența sa este una directă și practică: a participat la turnee în SUA cu Parliament și Funkadelic în 1979 și a colaborat ca vocalist cu Bootsy's Sweat Band. Această proximitate față de scena muzicală îi conferă o perspectivă unică, îmbinând rigoarea documentării cu intuiția celui care a trăit fenomenul din interior.

Notă biografică

Lloyd Bradley is the author of Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King, an account of the glory days of the Jamaican music industry, currently in its fourteenth UK printing, translated into six languages and the best-selling book ever written about Jamaican music or culture. He was Associate Producer of the BBC's 2002 series Reggae: The Story Of Jamaican Music and author of its accompanying book. As a regular contributor to Mojo, the Observer, the BBC and The Times, Lloyd is one of the UK's most respected writers and broadcasters on the subjects of Caribbean music, culture and its impact on the UK.

Descriere scurtă

For as long as people have been migrating to London, so has their music. An essential link to home, music also has the power to shape communities in surprising ways.Black music has been part of London's landscape since the First World War, when the Southern Syncopated Orchestra brought jazz to the capital. Following the wave of Commonwealth immigration, its sounds and styles took up residence to become the foundation of the city's youth culture. Sounds Like London tells the story of the music and the larger-than-life characters making it, journeying from Soho jazz clubs to Brixton blues parties to King's Cross warehouse raves to the streets of Notting Hill - and onto sound systems everywhere. As well as a journey through the musical history of London, Sounds Like London is about the shaping of a city, and in turn the whole nation, through music.Contributors include Eddy Grant, Osibisa, Russell Henderson, Dizzee Rascal and Trevor Nelson, with an introduction by Soul2Soul's Jazzie B.

Recenzii

Praise for Bass Culture: 'Bradley leaves no stone unturned in a coruscating rollercoaster ride through murder, major label gripes, ganja paranoia and racism, the first comprehensive history of every aspect of reggae
A brilliant, comprehensive history of Jamaica's principal twentieth century art form, Bradley deftly intertwines the the key themes of the Caribbean island's chaotic music industry and its checkered social history. Essential
What makes Bass Culture such an absorbing read is how easily Bradley joins the dots between the music and the culture ... a fascinating exploration, expansive and exacting
Dizzying in its scope yet at the same time meticulous in its attention to detail, written with passion, style and gusto
The most thorough attempt yet to tell reggae's whole story ... he is as attentive to the island's shifting social and political scene as he is to the gradual evolution of the music
An excellent account of the origins and development of reggae, skilfully locates each phase in the music's evolution and achieves this in an admirably lucid style
In Lloyd Bradley's long-awaited history, the ghettos and the ganja are explored alongside Independence and international relations to produce the definitive account. An informed analysis and an intoxicating aural history
Sounds like London is a must-read if you're into the history of black input into London club culture
Epic ... Sounds Like London is chock-full of fascinating, often forgotten characters ... a major work, and a worthy tribute to a vibrant and innovative culture.
I found myself riveted by descriptions of events and people I knew, but had never seen in print; even more so by what I learnt ... fascinating ... an honest and passionate celebration of not just the music, but the courage, tenacity and guile of the people who made it
Hugely entertaining ... full of stories of artists living fresh lives in the capital - and making themselves in the process such an intrinsic part of the British pop landscape.
Enlightening ... Sounds Like London is a major achievement ... Breezily written but always politically astute and critically sharp, it makes telling use of new interviews with important figures such as jazzman Russell Henderson and Eddy Grant. Enterprising radio commissioners should rush to give Bradley a regular show.
Illuminating ... The research and the interviews, as well as the author's comprehensive but lightly worn knowledge, elevate this book from being just a list of notable anniversaries and dry facts. Because of Bradley's background as a serious music journalist, he is well equipped for this kind of intensive curation and he never neglects the art of crafting a lovely sentence.
Jam-packed with vivid stories and essential info that places the reader right where the action is
Meticulous and exhaustive, Sounds Like London is a hugely entertaining and informative look at how black music has shaped the musical output of the city over the decades ... on everything from drum and bass to steel drum bands, Sounds Like London is an informed and entertaining trawl through a fascinating topic.
Lloyd Bradley's gallop of a book is as much about social transition as music ... Bradley writes with panache ... this exceptional work can sit proudly beside the author's earlier Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King, the definitive account of the glory days of the Jamaican music industry.
Sounds Like London, Lloyd Bradley's thoughtful survey of black music in the British capital ... Sounds Like London, a thoroughly enjoyable cultural history, captures the excitement and beauty of a music that changed the face of Britain for good.
Meticulously researched and illustrated
Bradley is the man for the job ... impressive