Jazzie B and the New Black Economy
Cynthia Rose, New Statesman, 17 June 1988
A thriving underground enterprise culture has grown up around music bootlegged vinyl, pirate radio, warehouse parties. Its a black economy powered by black aesthetics but its consumers are often white.
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