Music, Subcultures and Migration: Routes and Roots [Hardcover]

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.

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