Level Up: Live Performance and Creative Process in Grime Music

Level Up: Live Performance and Creative Process in Grime Music offers the first long-form ethnographic study of grime practice; it questions how and why artists do what they do; and it asks what this can tell us about creative process and improvisation more widely.

List of contents

1. 140 BPM Way of Life 2. Foundations 3. Improvisation and Group Process 4. The Through Ball 5. Pirate Mentality 6. Levelling Up

About the author

Alex de Lacey is Assistant Professor of Popular Music at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He is also a practicing DJ and live performer with the grime collective Over the Edge.

Summary

Level Up: Live Performance and Creative Process in Grime Music offers the first long-form ethnographic study of grime practice; it questions how and why artists do what they do; and it asks what this can tell us about creative process and improvisation more widely.

Product details

• Authors: Alex de Lacey
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.04.2023
• EAN: 9781032282183
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3228218-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Rock, Popular Culture, Rock & Pop music, MUSIC / General, Rap and Hip Hop, MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rap & Hip Hop, MUSIC / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Rap & Hip-Hop, Theory of music & musicology, Pop Music, Popular Music, Theory of music and musicology