COCKNEY REBELS: Popular Music in Tower Hamlets, 1624-2003
EAST END MUSIC MAKING OVER THE PAST 400 YEARS
Back in the early 90s I lived in Forest Gate, deep East London. By then what had once been a very Cockney community (ie white working class) had transformed into a primarily Indian neighbourhood. Iād been raised on myths of boisterous Cockneys making music ā from British sitcoms/films where Roll Out The Barrel was sung around an old pub piano to cheeky ā¦