These songs made their scenes indelible, from classic rock and dance pop to old-timey blues and thrash. There's even a former ...

Carson, a UVA professor of hip-hop and the Global South, uses prose, poetry and rap rhythms to explain race and culture.

Thirty years ago, a group of Salford misfits emerged from the wreckage of the Happy Mondays and the Ruthless Rap Assassins to create the gloriously unhinged, irreverent Black Grape.