Cultural Studies
Where You're From and Where They're At: Connecting Voices, Generations and Place to Create a Leeds Hip Hop Archive
Popular Music in Leeds
This first academic collection dedicated to popular music in Leeds - developed from the work of interdisciplinary scholars drawn from a major public museum exhibition “Sounds of Our City” and built upon contemporary research. Leeds has rich musical histories and heritage a long tradition of vibrant music venues nightclubs dance halls pubs and other sites of musical entertainment.
The city has spawned crooners folk singers punks post- punks Goths DJs popstars rappers and indie rockers yet – with a few exceptions - Leeds has not been studied for its scenes in ways that other UK cities have. In ways that the chapters explore Leeds’ popular music exemplifies and informs understandings of broader cultural and urban changes – both in Britain and across wider global contexts – of the social and historical significance of music as mass media; music and migration; music racialisation and social equity; industrial decline de-industrialisation neoliberalism and the rise of the 24-hour city. Charting moments of stark musical politicisation and de-politicisation while concomitantly tracing arguments about “heritagising” popular music within discussions about music’s “place” in museums and in the urban economy this book contributes to debates about why music matters has mattered and continues to matter in Leeds and beyond.
A New History of ‘Made in Italy’: Fashion and Textiles in Post-War Italy, Lucia Savi (2023)
Review of: A New History of ‘Made in Italy’: Fashion and Textiles in Post-War Italy Lucia Savi (2023)
London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 204 pp.
ISBN 978-1-35024-7758 h/bk £85
Fashion Brand Stories, 3rd ed., Joseph H. Hancock II (2022)
Review of: Fashion Brand Stories 3rd ed. Joseph H. Hancock II (2022)
London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts 216 pp.
ISBN 978-1-35013-554-3 h/bk $50.35
Political and Sartorial Styles: Britain and Its Colonies in the Long Nineteenth Century, Kevin A. Morrison (ed.) (2023)
Review of: Political and Sartorial Styles: Britain and Its Colonies in the Long Nineteenth Century Kevin A. Morrison (ed.) (2023)
Manchester: Manchester University Press 274 pp.
ISBN 978-1-52615-307-4 h/bk $195.00
ISBN 978-1-52615-306-7 e-book $135.00
Fear and Clothing: Dress in English Detective Fiction between the First and Second World Wars, Jane Custance Baker (2023)
Review of: Fear and Clothing: Dress in English Detective Fiction between the First and Second World Wars Jane Custance Baker (2023)
London: Bloomsbury Publishing 252 pp.
ISBN 978-1-35024-030-8 h/bk $82.80
Hip-Hop Archives
This book focuses on the culture and politics involved in building hip-hop archives. It addresses practical aspects including methods of accumulation curation preservation and digitization and critically analyzes institutional power community engagement urban economics public access and the ideological implications associated with hip-hop culture’s enduring tensions with dominant social values.
The collection of essays are divided into four sections; Doing the Knowledge Challenging Archival Forms Beyond the Nation and Institutional Alignments: Interviews and Reflections. The book covers a range of official unofficial DIY and community archives and collections and features chapters by scholar practitioners educators and curators.
A wide swath of hip-hop culture is featured in the book including a focus on dance graffiti clothing and battle rap. The range of authors and their topics span countries in Asia Europe the Caribbean and North America.