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Stand Up Tall: Dizzee Rascal and the Birth of Grime
Author(s): Dan Hancox (Author)
- Publication Date: July 30, 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 47 pages
- ISBN-10: B00E96DOT0
Book Description
All music is a product of its environment, and it’s entirely possible that Boy in da Corner, Dizzee’s Mercury prize-winning debut album, was made on a hand-me-down PC donated to Langdon Park School by Lehman Brothers.
Over 15,000 words, this is the story of that remarkable musical moment, seen through east London’s unique history of opulence and inequality, violence and aspiration, and how a teenage genius with nothing to lose made the best British album of the 21st century.
Dan Hancox writes for The Guardian, Frieze, Salon, New Statesman, The Independent, New Inquiry, openDemocracy and others on music, protests, riots, politics and pop culture. His other books include Kettled Youth, Fight Back!, Utopia and the Valley of Tears, and The Village Against The World.
