Music, Subcultures and Migration

This edited volume concentrates on the period from the 1940s to the present, exploring how popular music forms such as blues, disco, reggae, hip hop, grime, metal and punk evolved and transformed as they traversed time and space.

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Elke Weesjes is an adjunct Associate Professor of Modern History at the City University of New York in Brooklyn, USA.

Matthew Worley is a Professor of Modern History at the University of Reading, UK.

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List of contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Migrating Musical and Subcultural Forms
Elke Weesjes and Matthew Worley

PART I

1 Jamaican Music in the United States: The Story of Percussionist Larry McDonald
Elke Weesjes

2 Reggae and the First-generation Skinhead Subculture 19681972
Christopher Spinks

3 On the Land, in the Underground: The Rise and Fall of the 'Crusties'
Kate Firks

4 Out of My Brain on the Bullet Train: Japan, Mod and the Migratory Flows of a Subculture
Peter Hughes Jachimiak

5 'You're as Taz as Tazzy can be': Transgressing Racial and Class Boundaries in Australian Grime
Alex De Lacey

6 Straightwashed or Hiding in Plain Sight?: The Secret History of Italo Disco
Stephen Hill

7 The New Pop Formula: How to Write a Global US Hit Song in the Twenty-first Century
Lars M*ünzer*

PART II

8 The Spanish Blues Scene: Travelling Music and Subcultural Identities
Josep Pedro and Bego*ña Gutiérrez-Martínez*

9 Solidarity, Rebellion or Exoticisation? The Transferral of Ska and Reggae Cultures to Czech and Slovak Fans
Miroslav Michela and Ond*ej Daniel*

10 From Blackened Valhalla to Hyperborean Dacia: The Romanian Black Metal Scene as a Case Study of Cultural Migration
Claudiu Oancea

11 Subversive South Africa: Race, Class and Gender in South African Punk, 19761985
Amber Beeson

12 'For the Betterment of Our Homeland': Interpretations and Adaptations of Global Black Music in an Ethiopian Border Town
Sarah Bishop

13 'Straight Outta Kathmandu': Hip-Hop and Youth Culture in Post-War Nepal

Kritika Chettri

Index