I Could Be So Good For You, by John Medway, Tells the stories of 1950s Soho and the Notting Hill Carnival, Mod and Punk, the Westway and Broadwater Farm, Camden Lock and Green Lanes, the Anti-Nazi League and Grunwick, Madness and N-Dubz, Spurs and Arsenal, Minder and Zadie Smith, and drawing on a wide range of personal and local histories, it reclaims a London working class culture in danger of being forgotten and ignored in the midst of the modern neoliberal mega city.
Chapter by chapter, Medway steers us through the decades, from the 1950s to the Noughties, and, as he does, he illuminates a working class defined by its multi-cultural and multi-ethnic nature, a working class at the sharp end of fashion, music and politics, and, ultimately, a working class that escapes the clichés often applied to it.
Size: 154 x 234mm
Pages: 473
Publisher: Repeater