Ed, thanks for reminding me of Richard Allen. His skinhead
books were
recently collected into three-books-each collections. I
picked up the
first, but it got buried before I got around to reading it.
I'll have
to dig it out.
I have picked up a few of the "Backstreets"
"Youthsploitation" books,
each of which revolves around a specific musical subculture.
The couple
I've read have varied in quality.
You did, however, remind me that I want to pick up the other
Victor
Headley books. Only the first, Yardie, came out here, in
hardback
believe it or not. (Yardley originally sold his self-xeroxed
book
around London dance clubs.) Pure blaxploitation, the rise of
a Jamaican
drug dealer in the "yards" of London. Should appeal to fellow
fans of
Iceberg Slim, Donald Goines and/or Blaxploitation films like
Superfly,
Black Caeser, etc.
Mark
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