Judge Dread: Music Hall Traditionalist or Postcolonial Hybrid

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stratton, Jon
Format: Journal Article
Published: Routledge 2014
Subjects:
Postcolonial
Ska
Hybrid
Music Hall
Judge Dread
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43792

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