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Hold Tight: Black Masculinity, Millennials and the Meaning of Grime
- Narrated by: Ben Bailey Smith
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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Summary
Hold Tight is the book that kick-started the 'Grime Library'. Bursting into bookshops in July 2017 to rave reviews and a sold-out event at Rough Trade East, Hold Tight paved the way for Grime-related books such as Wiley's Eskiboy, Dan Hancox's Inner City Pressure and DJ Target’s Grime Kids.
Celebrating more than 60 key songs that make up Grime’s DNA, Jeffrey Boakye explores the meaning of the music and why it has such resonance in the UK.
Boakye also examines the representation of masculinity in the music and the media that covers it.
Both a love letter to Grime and an investigation into life as a black man in Britain today, Hold Tight is insightful, very funny and stacked with sentences you’ll want to listen to again and again.
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“Witty and perceptive, confident and charming - and its flow and timing are flawless.” (The Guardian)
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- Femi
- 16-05-22
Worth your time!!
Thought this was brilliant - Ben Bailey Smith’s narration is perfect - perfect voice for it. It’s a super insightful book, funny, historical, political and important and I love the bloody footnotes!! You will undoubtedly listen to every song or seek out a playlist :)
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- Mr. Tge White
- 17-07-23
Excellent
As a fan of grime (since before it was even called grime), I have always been fascinated by the history of the genre. And the rise of the genre. This book is magnificent.
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