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Author:   Elke Weesjes (University of Sussex, Brighton (UK)) ,  Matthew Worley (University of Reading, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781032565477

ISBN 10:   1032565470
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   26 December 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

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 1968–1972 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 ‘You’re 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 Münzer PART II 8 The Spanish Blues Scene: Travelling Music and Subcultural Identities Josep Pedro and Begoña Gutiérrez-Martínez 9 Solidarity, Rebellion or Exoticisation? The Transferral of Ska and Reggae Cultures to Czech and Slovak Fans Miroslav Michela and Ondřej 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, 1976–1985 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

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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.

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