A Popular Music Studies Journal
In its refusal to conform to the homogenizing world of ideologically sanctioned ‘night culture’, the contemporary reggae/dub sound system is …
“At dances, men often say: ‘What are you doing with those records?’ It feels fabulous to shock them. When I …
‘Until the lion tells his side of the story, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter’ – African …
Wounds and scars are a map of the history of a body. These wounds shape us, they traumatize us, they …
The One LP Project began in 2010 as a response to conversations with musicians about their relationship with the work …
I volunteered to be part of the planning team of the Sound System Outernational events held at Goldsmiths University of …
Sound System Outernational (SSO) is a practice-research collective of MA and PhD students and staff based in Goldsmiths, in New …
“Playing music, for me right, it gets some heads together. Get a little tribal thing going on, you know. Get …
In this very personal cockney history of reggae, I explore my first encounters with ska and reggae, growing up in …
In this article, I look at the ways in which surfers from Cocoa Beach, while acknowledging the historical heritage of …