Dub is the new black
Modes of Identification and Tendencies of Appropriation in Late 1970s Post-Punk
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4304546 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mimi Haddon (0000-0002-3907-9874, University of Sussex, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 283-301 |
| Publication date | 2017-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Popular Music (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-1430 • E-ISSN: 1474-0095 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0261143017000095 |
| OpenAlex | W2623566254 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 16 |
This article examines the complex racial and national politics that surrounded British post-punk musicians' incorporation of and identification with dub-reggae in the late 1970s. I analyse this historical moment from sociological, intra-musical and discursive perspectives, reading the musical incorporation of dub-reggae by The Police, Gang of Four and Joy Division against the backdrop of the era's music press discourse. I also unpack discursive representations of Jamaican musicians and ask: what role does subaltern performativity play in contributing to 'imaginary' critical conceptions of dub, particularly concerning the Jamaican melodica player Augustus Pablo? I conclude by suggesting that post-punk musicians' incorporation of dub-reggae represents neither an unencumbered post-colonial socio-musical alliance nor a purely colonial one, but rather exceeds and therefore problematises these two positions
Aesthetics · Appropriation · Art · Art history · Epistemology · Literature · Musical · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Punk · Sociology · The Imaginary · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Music History and Culture · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |