An interest kickstarted by hearing Eden and Meme’s fantastic fast chat special:
http://dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=3690&highlight=fast+chat
I’d heard Smiley Culture before but never realised quite how much similar good influential stuff there was out there from mid80s Britain. It seems reggae reissues are very much focused on Jamaica.
What other examples are there, the older the better, of Black musicians in the UK whose role has been unfairly forgotten?
I’ve already been reading about Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, son of a Sierra Leonean father, who was a popular composer at the end of the 19th century but whose legacy seems to have been marginalised. Born and raised in Croydon, he was making musical waves long before any dubstep….
http://dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=3690&highlight=fast+chat
I’d heard Smiley Culture before but never realised quite how much similar good influential stuff there was out there from mid80s Britain. It seems reggae reissues are very much focused on Jamaica.
What other examples are there, the older the better, of Black musicians in the UK whose role has been unfairly forgotten?
I’ve already been reading about Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, son of a Sierra Leonean father, who was a popular composer at the end of the 19th century but whose legacy seems to have been marginalised. Born and raised in Croydon, he was making musical waves long before any dubstep….