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Record Nr.

UNINA9911049196103321

Autore

Kinsella Ray

Titolo

Clubbing Culture in Islington, 1986-1995 : Ravers, Junglists, and House Fans / / by Ray Kinsella

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2025

ISBN

3-031-97685-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in the History of Subcultures and Popular Music, , 2730-9525

Disciplina

909.08

Soggetti

History, Modern

Music - History and criticism

Great Britain - History

Civilization - History

Social history

Oral history

Modern History

History of Music

History of Britain and Ireland

Cultural History

Social History

Oral History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Contextualising Islington, 1965-1985 -- Islington Warehouse Parties, 1986-1990 -- The Islington Clubs, 1990-1995 -- Sartorial Style in the Islington Clubs House-heads and Junglists -- Gentrification and the Closure of Islington’s Clubs -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first book to map and celebrate the overlooked history of producers, promoters and DJs from Islington that contributed to the acid house and rave scene as it developed in derelict spaces in the borough in the late 1980s, and how this paved the way for the house and jungle scenes that dominated Islington clubs during the 1990s.



Blending oral history interviews with contemporaneous reports in the style press, the music press, local and national newspapers, and archival documents stored at the Islington Local History Centre, this book sheds new light upon key clubs, the music, cultural identities, and fashions. The book presents unpublished eyewitness accounts by people from Islington’s council estates that contributed to these scenes to unravel the complex and hitherto poorly understood interrelationship between gang culture, subculture and localised club culture. It argues that the backlash to the perceived unsavoury nature of clubbers and promoters, combined with the onslaught of gentrification in the borough in the late 1990s, led to the venues being closed down, and to this vital moment in the history of UK popular culture being brought to an end. Ray Kinsella is an academic researcher and writer who co-founded the Subculture Interest Group at the University of the Arts London, UK. His previous book, The Bebop Scene in London's Soho, 1945-1950: Post-war Britain's First Youth Subculture, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2022.