Volume 3, Issue 1 – Nicholas Gebhardt – Editorial
Howling Cats and Barking Dogs “We were living at the time in a tiny ground floor apartment in which I …
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Riffs – Volume 3 – Issue 2: CfP
Call for Proposals The fiesta was really started. It kept up day and night for seven days. The dancing kept …
Volume 2, Issue 2 – Matt Grimes – “Dis one is for alla the junglists”: From Rebel MC to Conquering Lion and beyond
Taking a broadly historiographical and socio-cultural approach, this article presents the development of Jungle, a unique Black British musical form, …
Volume 2, Issue 2 – Claudia Nardini – From Italian Dancehalls to South East London: An epiphanic Journey through Sounds and Systems
As it often happens, experiences are made of connections and revelations. It also happens that we transform ourselves during the …
Volume 2, Issue 2 – Brian D’Aquino – Rewinding the Tape of History: King Tubby and the Audiopolitics of Echo
King Tubby’s Studio is a small-sized bungalow on Drommilly Avenue, in the heart of the infamous Waterhouse ghetto. King Tubby, …
Volume 2, Issue 2 – Joe Muggs – Bass Culture and a Very Tangled Englishness
This piece reflects upon the book BASS MIDS TOPS, which I am producing with the photographer Brian David Stevens. It …
Volume 2, Issue 2 – Mykaell Riley – THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED: YES, IT WAS
It’s August 2018. At this point in the year four decades ago, I was on one of life’s incredible journeys.
Volume 2, Issue 2 – Sebastian Davies – ‘Who Feels It Knows It’: Re-thinking knowledge, resistance and community through the sub-bass of the reggae sound system
In its refusal to conform to the homogenizing world of ideologically sanctioned ‘night culture’, the contemporary reggae/dub sound system is …
Volume 2, Issue 2 – Ian Davies – Rusty Rebel of Rebel Rock Sound System: On inspirations, Birmingham and unity
“At dances, men often say: ‘What are you doing with those records?’ It feels fabulous to shock them. When I …
Volume 2, Issue 2 – Margarita Iriarte – Sharing Science
‘Until the lion tells his side of the story, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter’ – African …