Jon Stratton and Nabeel Zuberi, eds. 2014. Black Popular Music in Britain Since 1945

Authors

  • Tony Mitchell University of Technology, Sydney

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jwpm.v3i1.28192

Keywords:

Britain, ethnicity, gender, genre, identity, race

Abstract

Jon Stratton and Nabeel Zuberi, eds. 2014. Black Popular Music in Britain Since 1945. Farnham: Ashgate. 256pp. ISBN 9-781-140949-413-1 (hbk)

Author Biography

  • Tony Mitchell, University of Technology, Sydney

    Tony Mitchell is honorary research associate at the University of Technology, Sydney. He is the author of Dario Fo: People’s Court Jester (London: Methuen: 1999), Popular Music and Local Identity: Pop, Rock and Rap in Europe and Oceania (University of Leicester Press: 1996) and the editor of Global Noise: Rap and Hip hop outside the USA (Wesleyan University Press: 2001). He co-edited Sounds of Then, Sounds of Now: Popular Music in Australia (Australian Clearing House for Youth Studies: 2008), North meets South: Popular Music in Aotearoa/New Zealand, (Perfect Beat: 1994), and Home, Land and Sea: Situating Popular Music in Aotearoa New Zealand (Auckland: Pearson Education: 2011). He has also published numerous articles on music and film in various countries, including Iceland, and writes reviews for the Australian magazines Music Forum and Cyclic Defrost.

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Published

2016-07-21

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2016)

Section

British Popular Music

License

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How to Cite

Mitchell, T. (2016). Jon Stratton and Nabeel Zuberi, eds. 2014. Black Popular Music in Britain Since 1945. Journal of World Popular Music, 3(1), 137-143. https://doi.org/10.1558/jwpm.v3i1.28192