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Sonic Settlements: Jamaican Music, Dancing, and Black Migrant Communities in Postwar Britain.

Between the 1940s and 1970s, various genres of Jamaican music, from big band jazz and tropical sounds, to ska/blue beat, to reggae, provided a sonic dimension to the mass migration of Caribbean people to Britain. Alongside the quest for housing and work, Caribbean people, as well as native black Bri...

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Published in:Journal of Social History Vol. 52; no. 2; pp. 353 - 383
Main Author: McGraw, Jason
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Winter2018
Subjects:
Jamaica
Popular music
Black British
Caribbean music
British dance
Post-World War II Period
Race relations in Great Britain
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