Sound System Culture, Celebrating Huddersfield's Sound Systems

by Paul Huxtable, Al Fingers (Editor), Mandeep Samra (Editor)

The British town of Huddersfield, nestled within the Pennine hills of West Yorkshire, has played an important role in the history of UK sound system culture. In fact, in relation to the town's size, its contribution to the UK's sound system heritage is quite phenomenal. Featuring a wealth of previously unseen archival material, this book celebrates the people and sounds that helped establish Huddersfield as the reggae and sound system capital of northern England.

128 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 2014

Reviews

[Ian French · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great book for anyone who has a fascination or interest with the history of the big sound systems that were showcased in one town, Huddersfield which led to it's own cultural phenomenon. To this day some of the tech is still seen at Carribean carnivals.

[Jaz · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was delighted to stumble across this; I spent many a happy Sunday night as a student listening to the good Dr Huxtable playing out classic roots revival tunes on Huddersfield pirate station Unity FM! The book is a fine document of the town's disproportionately large involvement in UK sound system culture.

My only criticism would be that the sound system operators interviewed were limited to short, single sentence quotes when I would have loved to have read their oral histories in much greater depth.