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 19681972 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 Youre 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 Mnzer PART II 8 The Spanish Blues Scene: Travelling Music and Subcultural Identities Josep Pedro and Begoa Gutirrez-Martnez 9 Solidarity, Rebellion or Exoticisation? The Transferral of Ska and Reggae Cultures to Czech and Slovak Fans Miroslav Michela and Ondej 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, 19761985 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