Thursday 12 November. 7.30pm. Masters of the Airwaves
Without pirate radio, British pop music would not contain successful exports such as Sade, Mica Paris, Soul II Soul, Floetry, Dizzee Rascal, Estelle and Emeli Sandé. Chart the history of black music in London during the 80s with authors of Masters of the Airwaves: The Rise and Rise of Underground Radio, Dave VJ and Lindsay Wesker. Bishopsgate Institute, near Liverpool St Station. Read blog:
The Tip of the Iceberg: A look at British black music radio
Monday 16 November. 6.30-8.30pm. Africans In Classical Music: From Samuel Coleridge-Taylor To Okiem
@ Harrow Mencap. Free. Led by Kwaku. http://bit.ly/1dD4QyL
Monday 30 November. 6.30-8.30pm. History Of African Media In Britain
@ Harrow Mencap. Free. With history consultant Kwaku and media consultant Neil Kenlock. http://bit.ly/1dD4QyL
Monday 7 December. 6.30-8.30pm. The Publisher’s Take On Walter Rodney’s ‘How Europe Underdeveloped Africa’
@ Harrow Mencap. Free. Led by Elder Eric Huntley http://bit.ly/1dD4QyL
Monday 14 December. 6.30-8.30pm. History Of Black History Month In Britain & Harrow
@ Harrow Mencap. Free. Led by Kwaku. http://bit.ly/1dD4QyL
Monday 21 December. 6.30-8.30pm. Youths’ Take On British History 50:70
@ Harrow Mencap. Free. Led by Harrow BHM Group youth volunteers Antonio & Marcel Phillip. http://bit.ly/1dD4QyL
Booker Washington and James Alves at the Royal Normal College for the Blind
Details of the visit by Booker Washington to the Royal Normal Blind School in Upper Norwood in 1899 and the attendance there of James Augustus Alves (from Berbice, British Guiana (Guyana) around 1903 has been posted by Jeff Green on his website at http://www.jeffreygreen.co.uk/157-upper-norwoods-blind-school-1890s-1910s.
This follows my mentioning Alves to him at the BBH3 Conference on Thursday 29 October having come across material about him in Croydon Local Studies while preparing my talk on Coleridge-Taylor and the Croydon Music Scene on 28 October in the South Norwood Arts Festival.
The ‘forgotten’ army of 400,000 Muslim soldiers who fought in Great War trenches for Britain
