Acid house and rave as part of the social upheaval of 1980s Britain, not a bolt from the blue. By Jeremy Deller. Commissioned by Frieze in 2018, shown on BBC Four in 2019. 60 min
The Turner Prize-winning artist gives a lesson to a class of A-level politics students and, through rare archive footage, ties the explosion of acid house to the deeper fault lines of the decade: class, identity, geography and protest.
An answer to the usual story of a handful of London DJs discovering ecstasy on holiday in Ibiza in 1987.
On YouTube from The Sound Of The Underground.