Judge Dread: Music Hall Traditionalist or Postcolonial Hybrid
Judge Dread (Alex Hughes) had nine top forty hits in the early 1970s. All were banned bythe BBC. Almost all the music press ignored him. Hughes was white and working class; hismost significant idea was to combine naughty remakes of nursery rhymes with ska androck steady backing rhythms. Judge Dread’...
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Routledge
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43792 |