I Could Be So Good for You
Book description
I Could Be So Good For You tackles head-on the pernicious and implicitly racist fiction that London, most especially north London, has no "real" working class in comparison to a more "authentic" working class in a place called "the North".
In doing so it offers a history and a portrait…
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Medhurst has put together a definitive history of the North London Working Class from the Second World War to The Noughties, relying mainly on interviews with the inhabitants, as well as his own experiences.
In some ways, this milieu, despite its disproportionate contribution to the arts, music, sport, and culture in general, remains relatively unknown, with north London lacking the industrial base normally associated with a working class. Medhurst is their champion, an advocate for their unashamed cosmopolitanism and creativity.
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