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British Folk Music: Where Are All The Black People?

Marie Bashiru

Why are Black people so rarely seen in British Folk Music, apart from the apparent & questionable guise of the Blackface traditions still practiced today? Musician and researcher, Marie Bashiru, looks into the question of why Black people are so rarely seen in British Folk Music, and their absence in the English body of folk song, compared to their counterparts in the US. It revisits and shines a ... more

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Why are black people so rarely seen in British Folk Music, apart from the apparent and questionable guise of the Blackface traditions that we still see practiced today? What does belonging look like in a genre that has historically excluded those not... more

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    “British Folk Music: Where are all the Black People” is an absolutely vital contribution to the ethnomusicology landscape. Meticulously researched and immaculately produced and hosted by singer-songwriter and researcher Marie Bashiru, the podcast offers an entirely new historical exploration of the unexplained absence of Black people within English folk music. Centuries of history are covered - from Black British history as a whole to the impact and legacy of Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain to t... more

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