Black Popular Music in Britain Since 1945

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Race, identity and the meaning of jazz in 1940s Britain / C. Tackley - Melting pot: the making of black British music in the 1950s / J. Stratton - Revisiting Britain's 'Afro trend' of the 1960s and 1970s: musical journeys, fusions and African stereotypes / M. Coester - Britfunk: black British popular music, identity and the recording industry in the early 1980s / R/ Strachan - Black music and cultural exchange in Bristol / R. Hyder - Bass culture: an alternative soundtrack to Britishness / M. Riley - 'Men cry too': black masculinities and the feminisation of lovers rock in the US / L.A. Palmer - The sounding of the Notting Hill carnival: music as space, place and territory / J. Henriques & B. Ferrara - Voodoo rage: blacktronica from the north / H.C. Rietveld - Break/flow/escape/capture: the energy and impotence of the hardcore continuum / J. Gilbert - 'New throat fe chat': the voices and media of MC Culture / N. Zuberi.