Rock artist Nick Cave finds poetry in the darkness - his song “Jubilee Street” is an example.
- Associate professor Music and Media, University of Gloucestershire
A 1981 odd and eerie protest song, ‘Ghost Town’, still resonates today. It remains a cry out against injustice, against closed off opportunities by those who have pulled the ladder up.
The search for old or new African sounds is based around a nostalgia culture that is endemic to Anglo-American popular music.
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