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An outstanding combination of musical and Black British history which shows the strength and cultural significance of Black music and reveals the people behind the music, what they’re really saying and why. Very well put together with clear print which is easy to read (I struggle with very small print and large blocks of text but this is perfect. Even now, the impacts of the Empire Windrush wave, and the lack of recognition of black (and Asian) service people of the wars, is being raised for redress.
With its John Barnes rap, it’s ‘cheesy’ (as Boakye says), yes, but the whole zeitgeist of the Nineties is there buoyed up by Boakye’s own enthusiasm.on youth; it is today’s children who will inherit our mistakes but from reading and thinking about this book, they will have been expertly guided in putting these mistakes right. Jeffrey Boakye has created a truly unique and delightful book which he has paired with a matching playlist on Spotify meaning you can listen to the songs he details whilst reading about the context at the same time. In the same vein as Ghost Town, UB40’s One in Ten looks at similar urban problems in Birmingham, which would neatly segue into Pass the Dutchie by Musical Youth – an interesting song to explore in the way that it made its child bandmates TV, radio and magazine stars overnight with a sudden and ubiquitous exposure that is very comparable to viral YouTube sensations today.
The book contains 28 chronological chapters, each focusing on a song and Jeffrey Boakye explains and describes the social and political context in which it was written. I’ve not encountered many non-fiction books that I would describe as ‘page-turners’ but this really is one of them. I was at my last school for 4 years and we had ********* book fairs every term – and every term, I was disappointed by the narrow range of books.The Story of Scottish Art is beautifully illustrated with the diverse artworks that form Scotland’s long tradition of bold creativity: Pictish carved stones and Celtic metalwork; Renaissance palaces and chapels; paintings of Scottish life and landscapes by Horatio McCulloch, David Wilkie and Joan Eardley; designs by master architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh; and collage and sculpture by Pop Art pioneer Eduardo Paolozzi.
This exhilarating playlist tracks some of the key shifts in modern British history, and explores the emotional impact of 28 songs and the artists who performed them. Even if it’s not a familiar artist or favourite song, the combination of words and period music always seem to evoke technicolour flashes of that time. I haven't charted out my visits for the summer term, but I'm sure there are several in the south) and thanks so much for being so fantastic!Expert art historian Matthew Wilson traces the often surprising trajectories that symbols have taken through history, from their original purposes to their modern meanings, identifying the common themes and ideas that link seemingly disparate cultures. This review was written by Ben Harris I'm a primary school teacher in Essex and completely love reading and books of all kinds. Meet Monsieur Benoit, who appeared suddenly in Paris with a scheme for telegraphing messages across the world (or, at least, across the room) by means of electricity and the telepathic power of snails, and actually raised the money to build this extraordinary machine. Ngadi Smart is an award-winning Sierra Leonean visual artist based between London (UK) and Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire), who specialises in illustration and photography. What’s more, there was encouragement for Caribbeans to journey to Britain to take up post WWII jobs!
Now, what teenager, in any era, wouldn’t want to create a multimedia scrapbook soundtrack of their life experiences peppered with biography, review, political statement, angst, a sense of history and self? The book shows how these agendas fit into the much wider picture of what's really going on in the world, and--crucially--how the power lies with us to bring it to an end.In his introduction, Boakye says that ‘Music is Life’ then mentions three other things that great music does: music can celebrate, it can help us talk about oppression, and it can form a resistance. This book encourages children to review and reconsider the historical events, societal change and politics that underpins these songs, to help them form their own opinions. Have to go, apparently Duran Duran's music video 'Union of the Snake' has very different connotations once you know what to look for 😁.
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