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Convivial cultures and the commodification of otherness in London nightlife in the 1970s and 1980s
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This chapter shows that the young white people who spent their nights sharing music and organising around musical activism in postcolonial London built a shared culture that struck an often-tenuous balance between culturally appropriating Black spaces and music and building friendships and solidarities within them. These spaces had the power to make such interactions banal but, particularly in the case of the Brixton Academy, they also foregrounded the possibility of inter-racial encounters.

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British culture after empire

Race, decolonisation and migration since 1945