Literary Friction - Dancing Time with Jacqueline Crooks
Literary Friction
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The Sound Revolution of Black Britain in the 1970s
The sound revolution of black Britain in the 1970s is such a huge topic. I wanted to recreate a lost world because it was powerful at the time. The dances were below ground. They were hidden from mainstream society. So mainly, this subculture created these spaces underground as a way to create their own spaces for communing and creating. It felt like a very unusual space with unusual music that was once taking your way to otherworldly spaces via the echoing chambers of the music or kind of sounds inhabiting your body. There's also this wonderful scene that runs through the book where you describe the clothes that everybody's wearing in this scene. And I loved it, but it felt very specific to
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