1st Edition
Level Up: Live Performance and Creative Process in Grime Music
By Alex de Lacey
Copyright 2023
222 Pages
27 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
222 Pages
27 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
222 Pages
27 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Grime music has been central to British youth culture since the beginning of the 21st century. Performed by MCs and DJs, it is an Afrodiasporic form that developed on street corners, on pirate radio and at raves. Level Up: Live Performance and Creative Process in Grime Music offers the first long-form ethnographic study of grime practice; it questions how and why artists do what they do; and it... Read more
1. 140 BPM Way of Life 2. Foundations 3. Improvisation and Group Process 4. The Through Ball 5. Pirate Mentality 6. Levelling Up
Biography
Alex de Lacey is Assistant Professor of Popular Music at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He is also a practicing DJ and live performer with the grime collective Over the Edge.
