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Dr Alex de Lacey is Assistant Professor in Popular Music at the University of Groningen. His research focuses on performance in grime and hip-hop. His first book, Level Up: Live Performance and Creative Process in Grime Music, is available through Routledge. Alex writes for Red Bull, Songlines and is published in Global Hip-Hop Studies, Popular Music, Popular Music History and an edited collection on Critical Digital Pedagogy.
He DJs for grime crew Over the Edge, with a monthly show on Mode FM.
Education/Academic qualification
Musicology, PhD, Level Up! Live Performance and Creative Process in Grime Music , Goldsmiths Univ London, Goldsmiths University London, University of London
1-Oct-2016 → 30-Apr-2020
Award Date: 30-Apr-2020
Education, Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), Higher Education Academy
Award Date: 17-Dec-2019
External positions
Assistant Editor of the IASPM Journal
1-Oct-2021 → 30-Sept-2025
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Bridging the gap: Re-rendering jazz practice in London's displaced diasporas
de Lacey, A., 15-Nov-2024, The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies. Havas, Á., Johnson, B. & Horn, D. (eds.). Taylor and Francis Inc., p. 368-379 12 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review
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‘You're as Taz as Tazzy Can Be': Transgressing Racial and Class Boundaries in Australian Grime
De Lacey, A., Mar-2024, Music, Subcultures and Migration: Routes and Roots. Weesjes, E. & Worley, M. (eds.). 1st ed. London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, p. 81-94 14 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review
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Level Up: Live Performance and Creative Process in Grime Music
Lacey, A. D., 6-Apr-2023, Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. 222 p. (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)Research output: Book/Report › Book › Academic
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Live and direct? Censorship and racialised public morality in grime and drill music
de Lacey, A., 28-Nov-2022, In: Popular Music. 41, 4, p. 495-510 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Pirate mentality: How London radio has shaped creative practice in grime music
de Lacey, A., 1-Apr-2021, In: Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media. 19, p. 197-215 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
2 Citations (Scopus)
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Routledge (Publisher)
De Lacey, A. (Peer reviewer)
1-Feb-2023 → …Activity: Peer-review and editorial work › Peer-review › Academic
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Popular Music (Journal)
De Lacey, A. (Peer reviewer)
9-Feb-2023 → …Activity: Peer-review and editorial work › Peer-review › Academic
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International Journal of Communication (Journal)
De Lacey, A. (Peer reviewer)
1-Apr-2022 → …Activity: Peer-review and editorial work › Peer-review › Academic
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IASPM@Journal (Journal)
De Lacey, A. (Editor)
1-Oct-2021 → 30-Sept-2025Activity: Peer-review and editorial work › Editorial work › Academic