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Katherine Green and Lucy Harrison (editors)

Sound Waves: Music in Newham

Preface by Emma Warren

Sound Waves: Music in Newham is a 76-page full-colour publication exploring six decades of music venues and community in Newham. Featuring photographs, oral history extracts and archive material, the book traces how local spaces – from youth clubs and pubs to sound systems and nightclubs – shaped the borough’s rich musical history.

Made possible with support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, the book brings together photographs, oral histories and archive material that chart the people and places which shaped Newham’s musical life.

Featuring stories from those who played, danced and organised events across the borough, Sound Waves captures how local spaces became vital to the evolution of soul, reggae, punk, jungle, hip hop and more.

The book is published by Rendezvous Projects, an artist-run Community Interest Company that explores social and cultural histories of places and communities through creative and ambitious projects. Their work presents stories in new and inviting ways, to establish narratives that may have been forgotten, underrepresented or ignored.

Visit their website for more information.