Inner city pressure : the story of grime / Dan Hancox.

By:

Hancox, Dan [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : William Collins, 2019Copyright date: 2019Edition: William Collins paperback editionDescription: 338 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type:

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780008257163 (paperback)

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Interviews.

DDC classification:

781.6490941 HAN 23

Summary: Beginning at the start of the new millennium in the council estates of inner London, Inner City Pressure tells the full story of grime, Britain's most exciting musical revolution since punk. Against seemingly insurmountable odds, grime's teenage pioneers sent out a signal from the pirate radio aerials and crumbling estates of London's poorest boroughs that would, 15 years later, resonate as the universal sound of youthful rebellion, as big in the suburbs as in the inner city. By 2018, the likes of Dizzee Rascal, Wiley and Skepta have long since become household names. But have the conditions that produced this music now gone forever? What happens to those living on the margins when those margins become ever-smaller spaces? And what happens to a rebellious, outsider sound when it is fully accepted by the pop cultural mainstream? Inner City Pressure tells the astonishing story of a generation dancing, fighting and rioting against the forces gentrifying the capital.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	781.6490941 HAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		39002100643171

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, PITCHFORK, NPR, METRO AND HERALD SCOTLAND BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2018

'The definitive grime biography' NME

'A landmark genre history' Pitchfork

Beginning at the start of the new millennium in the council estates of inner London, Inner City Pressure tells the full story of grime, Britain's most exciting musical revolution since punk. Against seemingly insurmountable odds, grime's teenage pioneers sent out a signal from the pirate radio aerials and crumbling estates of London's poorest boroughs that would, 15 years later, resonate as the universal sound of youthful rebellion, as big in the suburbs as in the inner city.

By 2018, the likes of Dizzee Rascal, Wiley and Skepta have long since become household names. But have the conditions that produced this music now gone forever? What happens to those living on the margins when those margins become ever-smaller spaces? And what happens to a rebellious, outsider sound when it is fully accepted by the pop cultural mainstream? Inner City Pressure tells the astonishing story of a generation dancing, fighting and rioting against the forces gentrifying the capital.

First published: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Beginning at the start of the new millennium in the council estates of inner London, Inner City Pressure tells the full story of grime, Britain's most exciting musical revolution since punk. Against seemingly insurmountable odds, grime's teenage pioneers sent out a signal from the pirate radio aerials and crumbling estates of London's poorest boroughs that would, 15 years later, resonate as the universal sound of youthful rebellion, as big in the suburbs as in the inner city. By 2018, the likes of Dizzee Rascal, Wiley and Skepta have long since become household names. But have the conditions that produced this music now gone forever? What happens to those living on the margins when those margins become ever-smaller spaces? And what happens to a rebellious, outsider sound when it is fully accepted by the pop cultural mainstream? Inner City Pressure tells the astonishing story of a generation dancing, fighting and rioting against the forces gentrifying the capital.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Prologue Don't Hold Him Back! (p. 1)
1 The City and the City (p. 9)
2 In the Roots (p. 33)
3 The New Ice Age (p. 57)
4 The Last of the Pirates (p. 81)
5 The Mainstream and the Manor (p. 101)
6 Grime Waves and the Respect Agenda (p. 123)
7 Neighbourhood Nationalism (p. 149)
8 Shutdown (p. 165)
9 Diy and Redemption Songs (p. 185)
10 We Run the Streets Today (p. 209)
11 Gentrification and the Manor Remade (p. 231)
12 A True Urban Renaissance (p. 247)
13 The Real Prime Ministers (p. 271)
Epilogue Back Your City (p. 295)
Notes (p. 307)
Acknowledgements (p. 319)
List of Images (p. 321)
Index (p. 323)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Dan Hancox is a native Londoner who writes about music, politics, gentrification, social exclusion, protest and the margins of urban life, chiefly for the Guardian, but also the New York Times, Vice, The Fader, Dazed & Confused and XXL.