Music, Subcultures and Migration

Elke Weesjes is an adjunct Associate Professor of Modern History at the City University of New York in Brooklyn, USA. Matthew Worley is a Professor of Modern History at the University of Reading, UK.

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 1968–1972
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

5 ‘You’re as Taz as Tazzy can be’: Transgressing Racial and Class Boundaries in Australian Grime
Alex De Lacey

6 Straightwashed or Hiding in Plain Sight?: The Secret History of Italo Disco
Stephen Hill

7 The New Pop Formula: How to Write a Global US Hit Song in the Twenty-first Century
Lars Münzer

PART II

8 The Spanish Blues Scene: Travelling Music and Subcultural Identities
Josep Pedro and Begoña Gutiérrez-Martínez

9 Solidarity, Rebellion or Exoticisation? The Transferral of Ska and Reggae Cultures to Czech and Slovak Fans
Miroslav Michela and Ondřej Daniel

10 From Blackened Valhalla to Hyperborean Dacia: The Romanian Black Metal Scene as a Case Study of Cultural Migration
Claudiu Oancea

11 Subversive South Africa: Race, Class and Gender in South African Punk, 1976–1985
Amber Beeson

12 ‘For the Betterment of Our Homeland’: Interpretations and Adaptations of Global Black Music in an Ethiopian Border Town
Sarah Bishop

13 ‘Straight Outta Kathmandu’: Hip-Hop and Youth Culture in Post-War Nepal

Kritika Chettri

Index