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"Black British Music in America 1967-2000: Atlantic Crossover historically examines musical and cultural relationships through popular music recordings, exploring the transatlantic journeys via academic, critical and commercial reception of the music. Itaddresses an overlooked area of Black popular music, investigating the fluctuating fortunes of artists and the contradictions of exporting such recordings to America. Examining a complex history spanning the last four decades of the twentieth century, the author reveals the chronologies, and the recording industry circumstances shaping the presence of Black British music in America. Readers will discover the conditions under which key recordings were made and released, through detailed analysis and new interviews with participating producers and artists. Including exploration of chart histories, this book also dissects the content of the recordings, uncovering the elements that made many of them successful. Black British Music in America 1967-2000 will interest all those who study popular music, cultural studies, and music production, as well as popular music listeners"--

Black British Music in America 1967–2000: Atlantic Crossover historically examines musical and cultural relationships through popular music recordings, exploring the transatlantic journeys via academic, critical, and commercial reception of the music. It addresses an overlooked area of Black popular music, investigating the fluctuating fortunes of artists and the contradictions of exporting such recordings to America.

Examining a complex history spanning the last four decades of the twentieth century, the author reveals the chronologies and the recording industry circumstances shaping the presence of Black British music in America. Readers will discover the conditions under which key recordings were made and released, through detailed analysis and new interviews with participating producers and artists. Including exploration of chart histories, this book also dissects the content of the recordings, uncovering the elements that made many of them successful.

Black British Music in America 1967–2000 will interest all those who study popular music, cultural studies, and music production, as well as popular music listeners.



This book historically examines musical and cultural relationships through popular music recordings, exploring the transatlantic journeys via academic, critical and commercial reception of the music. It will interest all those who study popular music, cultural studies, and music production, as well as popular music listeners.

Acknowledgements List of Figures
Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: Remixing Black Popular Music History: The Black and the British

The Cultural Sound Stage

Black British Outsiders

The Voice and the Instrumental Text

The Weight of History

Dread Out There: The Plight of Black British Reggae

Relocating Heatwave

Chapter 2: Crossing Over, Genre Politics and Music Production

The Mainstream and the Charts

Cultural Dislocation

Genre and Crossover: Charting a Discourse

Record Labels and Genre Labelling

Music Production

Chapter 3: Breaking Into America: The 1960s and 1970s

The Artistic Soundscape

The Beatles and Early Black British Pop

The Foundations: American Arrival

The Equals: The "Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys"

Cymande: Sending the Transatlantic Cultural Message

Joan Armatrading: Beyond Stereotypes

Chapter 4: The Margin and the Mainstream: The 1970s

Hot Chocolate: Brother Louie and Breaking America

Beyond Brother Louie

Blue-Eyed British R&B: The Average White Band and Kokomo

Chapter 5: Transitions, Technologies, and Tensions: The Late 1970s and 1980s

The Britfunk Era and Echoes of the 1970s

Skas Second Wave and American Indifference

Technology Topography

Imaginations New Dimensions

Chapter 6: The New Black British Invasion Continues: The 1980s

Total Contrast: Sync or Swim

Eddy Grant: Electric Propulsion

Billy Ocean: The Breakthrough Journey

Loose Ends: The Art of Hangin On

Chapter 7: Commercial Consolidation: The 1980s and 1990s

Five Star: Broken by America

Desree: Listen as Your Day Unfolds

Soul II Soul: American Conquest

Visual Grooves: Soul II Soul Music Videos

Caron Wheeler and UK Blak

Roachford: A Single Instance

Sade: Platinum Life

Chapter 8: Selling Seal to the States

The Beginning

The Crazy Music Video

The Second Self-Titled Album

The Human Being Reset

Record Company Calamities

Black British Songstress Status

Chapter 9: The Ephraim Lewis Case Study: 1992-1994

Unveiling Skin

Discovery and Signing

The Music Video for It Cant Be Forever

The Textures of Skin

The Unreleased Second Album

Chapter 10: Remastering the Mix: 1990s Snapshots and Black British Echoes

Equalizing the Past

Maxi Priest: Reggae Roots, Pop Success

Massive Attack: Remixing Stardom

Mark Morrison: The Mack Hits Back

Atlantic Coda

Bibliography

Discography

Filmography

Index
Mike Alleyne is Professor Emeritus with the Department of Recording Industry, Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU). His publications include co-editing the award-winning collection Analyzing Recorded Music (2023), The Essential Hendrix (2020), and The Encyclopedia of Reggae (2012), and co-editing Prince and Popular Music (2020). His work has been published in Popular Music & Society, Rock Music Studies, Popular Music History, Ethnomusicology Forum, and American Music Perspectives.