Join Liam Inscoe-Jones and Jacqueline Crooks in Conversation at the legendary Housmans Bookshop on October 28th, 7.30pm.
Jacqueline Crooks is the Women’s Prize shortlisted author of Fire Rush (an Observer Best Debut Novel of the Year) - a novel based, in part, around the underground dancehall dub nights which served as venues of ecstasy and sanctuary for second-generation Caribbean migrants in West London in the 1970s.
In this event, Crooks will sit in conversation with Liam Inscoe-Jones about his own debut - Songs In The Key of MP3: The New Icons of the Internet Age - a blistering examination of the music of the 2010s, the first decade where music was made by a generation of digital natives, who collapsed old ideas of genre and taste to create pioneering new sounds. They will explore the music of the era, ask how community persists in the internet age and examine how a time of cultural abundance has changed people’s perception of what music is or can be.
Praise for Songs In The Key of MP3:
"A beautifully researched and deeply engaging exploration of the boundary-pushers who redefined music and identity in a fast-moving, ephemeral era, laid out with such clarity and passion that this book feels as essential to understanding our present as Mystery Train and As Serious as Your Life were to theirs” - Algiers
“Insightful, beautifully told, and as exciting as listening to your favourite music. A total breath of fresh air” – Huw Stephens, BBC Radio 6
“One of those books where you’ll find yourself shocked that it didn’t exist before: it’s a mapping out of the modern musical landscape on terms defined by the artists who’ve come to define it” – The Arts Desk
