Critical Review: Back 1996 part 1

The first half of Chapter 8 of Les Back's New Ethnicities and Urban Cultures focus on the history behind the history of reggae in London's urban community. The black clubs started out in response to racism barring black workers from going to clubs and pubs in England. In these spaces, they combined different musical styles from the African diaspora and created a style of their own. Within this genre lies the sound system or set, which serves as the medium to combining all of these influencing genres.
I wasn't too surprised with the misogyny part of the article because often in urban music lies an element of misogyny, but I was surprised with the fact that the Rastafari movement seeped into the white working class and changed what that meant for them as well.

Discussion Question: In America, the tale often goes that Blacks came to America with the music in their hearts, transformed the music to live through it as generations came and times changed and to survive through the racism and injustice suffered, whereas in this case in England, Blacks made these spaces and music in response to rejection from Whites. Is there a difference in the level of Black/African authenticity because of the initial want to assimilate into the white culture? What would or wouldn't constitute this difference?