A.J.D. De Lacey, PhD

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Research interests

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.

Publications

Editorial

Gardner, A., de Lacey, A. & Smialek, E., 22-May-2025, In: IASPM Journal. 15, 1, p. 1-5 5 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › Academic › peer-review

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 & Francis Group, p. 368-379 12 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review

‘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

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

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

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

‘Let us know you’re locked’: Pirate radio broadcasts as historical and musical artefact

De Lacey, A., 21-Aug-2020, In: Popular Music History. 12, 2, p. 194-214 21 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Mitchell Ohriner, Flow: The Rhythmic Voice in Rap Music (2019)

De Lacey, A., 24-Mar-2020, In: Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland. 15, 5 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › Academic

‘Wot do u call it? Doof doof’: Articulations of glocality in Australian grime music

de Lacey, A., 1-Jun-2020, In: Global Hip Hop Studies. 1, 1, p. 115-141 26 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

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