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Bass Culture UK - How Bass Music Shaped British Culture

13 episodesLatest Jun 24, 2020
Recorded in United KingdomAbout United KingdomEnglishMusicSociety & CultureExplicit
Bass Culture UK is the Black Music Research Unit at the University of Westminster, an academic research project exploring the impact of Jamaican and Jamaican-influenced music on British culture. Covering the period from the 1960s to the present day, with an initial focus on London and a particular interest in the years 1976 – 1981. We explore the impact of Bass Culture through the explosion of Jamaican genres like ska, reggae and dub in the UK to the development of distinct British variants like dub poetry, two-tone and lovers rock. We examine how and why this music’s influence has and continues to transform British pop from Susan Cadogan or The Clash to Stormzy. We also explore Bass Culture as a creative practice, an independent economy and a source of alternative philosophical and political ideas. This podcast is a collection of interviews with the people both behind the scenes and in the limelight of British Black Music.

Episodes

  1. Bass Culture: Paul Gilroy (part two)

    “Culture lives culture moves culture changes. It mutates. It’s restless.“ In this 2-part episode revered historian and academic Paul Gilroy reflects on his scholarly work as a tran…

    E1359:47
  2. Bass Culture: Paul Gilroy (part one)

    In this 2-part episode revered historian and academic Paul Gilroy reflects on his scholarly work as a translator as well as the many nuisances of Black British identity. Gilroy als…

    E1259:20
  3. Bass Culture: Ras Kwame

    Respected radio broadcaster Ras Kwame shares the experiences that shaped him from co-running a record shop and music production to the rave culture scenes of acid house, jungle, so…

    E1159:29
  4. Bass Culture: Rodney P

    "Coxsone is a traditional Jamaican sound that play Jamaican music and dub... and a sound like Saxon was a young English sound that kinda represented different. It was more emcees a…

    E1001:04:16
  5. Bass Culture: Don Letts

    In this podcast Don Letts considers his time as a DJ at the Roxy during the rising of punk-music in the UK. He also delves into his involvement with BAD (Big Audio Dynamite) and hi…

    E959:17
  6. Bass Culture: Janet Kay

    In this honest and reflective podcast the lovers rock legend shares her experiences of arriving in the industry as a young budding singer and the many ambivalent twists and turns o…

    E859:34
  7. Bass Culture: Dennis Bovell

    This episode reflects on Dennis Bovell's music career as a bassist, and later record producer, as well as reflecting on running his Sufferer sound system which sometimes caused ten…

    E759:40
  8. Bass Culture: Linton Kwesi Johnson

    "We could identify what the concrete jungle was over here living in these housing estates... Brixton was a ghetto back in those days"In this enlightening and frank podcast Linton K…

    E657:22
  9. 5: Wildfred Walker CBE

    Pioneering music promoter Wilfred Walker gives a rare interview.

    E501:15:48
  10. 4: Sir Lloyd Coxsone from Coxsone Sound

    Before Sir Lloyd Coxsone ruled UK sound system culture, here is his story.

    E401:14:26
  11. 3: Dubplate Pearl

    Dubplate Pearl, DJ and selector, full length interview with Dr. Caspar Melville

    E348:01
  12. 2: Red Saunders Part 2: Photographer and co-founder of Rock Against RacismExplicit

    Second part of Red Saunders, photographer and co-founder of Rock Against Racism in conversation with Mykaell Riley, Director of The Black Music

    E229:56
  13. 1: Red Saunders Part 1: Photographer and co-founder of Rock Against RacismExplicit

    Red Saunders, photographer and co-founder of Rock Against Racism in conversation with Mykaell Riley, Director of The Black Music Research Unit.

    E101:07:09
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