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Inner City Pressure
- The Story of Grime
- Narrated by: Ash Hunter
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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Publisher's Summary
A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, PITCHFORK, NPR, METRO AND HERALD SCOTLAND BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2018
‘The definitive grime biography’ NME
’A landmark genre history’ Pitchfork
This audiobook is narrated by Ash Hunter, stage and screen actor who is currently playing Hamilton in the West End production of the musical.
The year 2000. As Britain celebrates the new millennium, something is stirring in the crumbling council estates of inner-city London. Making beats on stolen software, spitting lyrics on tower block rooftops and beaming out signals from pirate-radio aerials, a group of teenagers raised on UK garage, American hip-hop and Jamaican reggae stumble upon a dazzling new genre.
Against all odds, these young MCs will grow up to become some of the UK’s most famous musicians, scoring number one records and dominating British pop culture for years to come. Hip-hop royalty will fawn over them, billion dollar brands will queue up to beg for their endorsements and through their determined DIY ethics they’ll turn the music industry's logic on its head.
But getting there won’t be easy. Successive governments will attempt to control their music, their behaviour and even their clothes. The media will demonise them and the police will shut down their clubs. National radio stations and live music venues will ban them. There will be riots, fighting in the streets, even murder. And the inner-city landscape that shaped them will be changed beyond all recognition.
Drawn from over a decade of in depth interviews and research with all the key MCs, DJs and industry players, in this extraordinary book the UK’s best grime journalist Dan Hancox tells the remarkable story of how a group of outsiders went on to create a genre that has become a British institution. Here, for the first time, is the full story of grime.
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- Kindle Customer
- 12-07-2020
Brilliant cultural history
This book perfectly charts the history of grime in its proper social context. it is about neglect of social housing, discrimination, gentrification as well as beats and bars. A really masterful book
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- Mark Davison
- 07-05-2019
Spot-on Journalism
This HAS TO be the best grime book! Better than Wiley's, Stormzy's, Collins/Rose... and even, DJ Target's.
This, to me, is The Grime Bible. Cox has referenced all the iconic events and songs in grime to give the 'tabula-rasa' the most accurate and insightful historical experiences of this scene. It is clear that Cox has to be a fan of the music from the very beginning. Otherwise, how is it such a person can document all the influential cultural moments so accurately without leaving anything historical out.
To the fan, this book is such a pleasure to see, IN PRINT, in that all the classic events that took place become documented as a historical piece of literature. I am so glad to see that this book is written consisly as I would never had thought such a book existed. I am also pleased by Cox's journalism to present contemporary British society before it be about the music.
Cox has certainly done a huge service to Grime by making this an ethnography text of multicultural modern London. His writing been a resourceful cultural experience backed up songs with what was actually happening at the time in Britain bringing about justice to the genre and to the demographic. In essence, Cox has written a factual report on this unrepresented British culture... whether you like it or not.
This audio book was a pleasure to hear as the narrator pronounced all the slang terms perfectly and was read with expression along with a suitable accent. It was masterfully edited without a hick-up in sound... Well done, Ash Hunter!
This is what I have been waiting for... for years. I will definitely be quoting and referencing Cox as this is a laudable piece of cultural studies.
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- Arjun
- 24-09-2023
Grime + Uk culture
An amazing insight into the history of Grime and its cultural impact on pretty much everything in recent pop culture.
I absolutely loved it.
Nice one Dan.
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