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Bradley, Lloyd. Sounds Like London: 100 Years of Black Music in the Capital. (London: Serpent’s Tail, 2013) Chambers, Eddie. Roots & Culture: Cultural Politics in the Making of Black Britain. (London: I B Tauris & Co Ltd, 2017) Phillips, Mike & Phillips, Trevor. Windrush: The Irresistible Rise of Multicultural Britain. (London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1998) Tosh, John.Continue reading “Bibliography”

Building on what Jamaican reggae and ska artists, such as Jimmy Cliff, Desmond Dekker, had done before in the late 1970s and 80s a new wave of British ska and reggae acts sprang up, form the ska bands on Jerry Dammers’ Two Tone record label to the homegrown reggae acts such as Janet Kay whoContinue reading “British Caribbean music: the second wave of Ska and Reggae”

Reggae and Rastafarian culture have long gone hand in hand. The most obvious example of this I can think of is the song By the Rivers of Babylon, an old Jewish song about the longing for Israel that was repurposed to be about longing for the ancestral home of Africa and the place that itContinue reading “Reggae and Rastafari”

Music was an integral part of the lives of not only Afro-Caribbean migrants but migrants and immigrants from all over the globe who had found themselves living in the capital. In his introduction to Sounds Like London: 100 Years of Black Music in the Capital member of pioneering music group Soul II Soul Jazzy BContinue reading “Calypso”

Firstly, I would like to start by saying what cultural history is not. Cultural history is not social history, there is overlap but they are distinct from one another. Social history uses social theories to interpret records of the past in those terms and is heavily influenced by Marxism. Cultural history builds on social historyContinue reading “What is cultural history and why does it matter?”

Firstly, I would like to start by saying what cultural history isn’t. Cultural history is not social history, there is overlap but they are distinct from one another. Social history uses social theories to interpret records of the past in those terms and is heavily influenced by Marxism. Cultural history builds on social history inContinue reading “What is Cultural History and Why does it Matter?”