Creative Justice examines issues of inequality and injustice in the cultural industries and
cultural workplace. It first aims to 'do justice'to the kinds of objects and texts produced by …

Understanding Popular Music is a comprehensive introduction to the history and meaning of
popular music. It begins with a critical assessment of the different ways in which popular …

Though research on the multiethnolect spoken in London—Multicultural London English
(MLE)—has described the social distribution of the variety, the stylistic potentials of MLE …

The first history of London to show how immigrants have built, shaped and made a great
success of the capital city London is now a global financial and multicultural hub in which …

More than thirty years ago I stood on a London rooftop looking out over St Paul's Cathedral
and the City of London as the sun came up into a pale blue summer sky. I was not alone …

To date, there has been a significant gap in work on the social history of music in Britain from
1950 to the present day. The three volumes of Live Music in Britain address this gap and do …

Clyne (2000) coined the term multiethnolect to refer to a newly-formed contact variety of a
mainstream, majority-community language in contexts of high immigration. This chapter …

English pop music was a dominant force on the global cultural scene in the decades after
World War II–and it served a key role in defining, constructing and challenging various ideas …

With ongoing debates on Scottish independence, immigration, Britain's place in the EU,
multiculturalism, national identity and the specter of a past Empire complicating ethnically …

Race has been central to the discourse of popular music: to its performance, reception and,
indeed, to the ways that popular music and its genres have been thought about. This is most …