
Bass, Mids, Tops
An Oral History of Sound System Culture
Strange Attractor Press
Published on 3. March 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
488 pages
978-1-907222-77-1 (ISBN)
Description
An oral history of the UK's soundsystem culture, featuring interviews with Dubmaster Dennis Bovell, Skream, Youth, Norman Jay MBE, Adrian Sherwood, Mala, and others.In the years following the arrival of the Windrush generation, the UK's soundsystem culture would become the most important influence on contemporary pop music since rock and roll. Pumped through towering, home-built speakers, often directly onto the thronged streets of events like the Notting Hill Carnival, the pulsating bass lines of reggae, dub, rave, jungle, trip hop, dubstep, and grime have shaped the worlds of several generations of British youth culture but have often been overlooked by historians obsessed with swinging London, punk, and Britpop.This oral history, consisting of new interviews conducted by respected dance music writer Joe Muggs, and accompanied by dramatic portraits by Brian David Stevens, presents the story of the bassline of Britain, in the words of those who lived and shaped it. Features interviews with Dubmaster Dennis Bovell, Norman Jay MPE, Youth, Adrian Sherwood, Skream, Rinse FM's Sarah Lockhart and many others.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
100 b&w photos; 200 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 221 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-907222-77-1 (9781907222771)
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10/2020
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