500 years of music: exhibition challenges when Black British music began
From jazz to jungle, Black British music has topped the charts and inspired generations.
Now a new exhibition charts its history and the places it was born, from the kerbsides, clubs, and carnivals.
But it also goes way back before the 20th century - charting hundreds of years of Black musical history.
I went down to the exhibition at the British Library in London and met some of the pioneers featured.
Warning: flash photography.
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I dont think anyone with a brain has ever said black music didnt exist in britain till the 1940s
@joshuataylor3550
18 күн бұрын
Exactly the point of this
@johnrussell3961
18 күн бұрын
Black music doesn’t have to be performed by blacks. Blues was played by whites . Eric Clapton ranks along side BB king..
@astroboirap
18 күн бұрын
500 years of weed, stabbing and r a p e
@user-wq6sz7vt3w
18 күн бұрын
@@joshuataylor3550time for you to chill out man!
@SuperJAMAICAJAMAICA
17 күн бұрын
John Blanke's contribution should have been given more prominence.....kzread.info/dash/bejne/mHehmKixYsbdcdY.htmlsi=Ibuns7EEx1kFgiXr
Jazz arrived in the 1920’s . Blues arrived after the war.
@ownerpeasant
18 күн бұрын
So true. Most UK record labels had large lists of Jazz music licensed from the USA from the twenties onwards, including blues and gospel. Ragtime titles predate that. They did not do this for diversity but because it was popular and made money. Indeed these titles are still easy to find today for anyone interested. The title to this article is simply silly.
You can try to rewrite history all you like, we all know the reality and it's not what you're preaching.
@globalist1990
16 күн бұрын
You know the guitar came from Northern Africa into Europe, right?
@CriticalTheoryIsNonsense
16 күн бұрын
@@globalist1990 And what exactly does that claim have to do with this?
@globalist1990
16 күн бұрын
@@CriticalTheoryIsNonsense it's a fact, bud.
@CriticalTheoryIsNonsense
16 күн бұрын
@@globalist1990 Is it? So what does it have to do with this subject, or do you not know either?
@globalist1990
16 күн бұрын
@@CriticalTheoryIsNonsense you obviously don't know much about history.
“Fought their way into the charts” wow… what an insult
Black British is an oxymoron.🤨
@DanAshford-ny6sq
16 күн бұрын
Like saying dog horse
Misleading title and intro. Come on...?
This is simply the culture war raging in England.
500 Years?
Dude Marvin Gaye and Stevie wonder wrote political music in the 70s
@spreadgoodenergy6051
8 күн бұрын
So many black Americans made political music in the 1960s and 1970s. He really could have left black Americans out of the conversation.
My dear father was a stride piano player(Winifred attwell,mrs mills,russ Conway,duke Ellington,thelonius monk)this is black jazz music from USA.my dad was Irish Londoner. Most music today is rooted in Africa,so any modern music one plays is black music.We musicians mostly do not discriminate we just play it.
Robbin and Lootin music 😂
Expands the narrative whilst simultaneously reducing it's historical scope.
Very misleading. No more to say .
So much incredible stuff packed into 5 minutes!
Samuel Coleridge - one of the composers
@zenster1097
6 күн бұрын
Not black. Stop promoting black supremacy.
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This entire report just showed musicians from the 80s and a singer singing now where's the ones before world war II
So what music is couourless
@ivanrlynn
17 күн бұрын
the best thing about music is that it is invisable
@chrispowell8121
17 күн бұрын
The colour of people's skin isn't really the point. It's about the roots of the music by people who are often forgotten.
@ivanrlynn
17 күн бұрын
@@chrispowell8121 and who exaxtly is meant to remember other than those who appreciated that art
@chrispowell8121
17 күн бұрын
@@ivanrlynn that's why we teach history, so that future generations remember. This isn't just about that particular music, but the evolution of our culture and where it came from.
@ivanrlynn
17 күн бұрын
@@chrispowell8121who cares? is the question
Divide and Conquer
Where can I see an exhibition on polish music arriving in UK?
Thanks for posting
So another exhibition in a long line of exhibitions promoting black identitarianism and historical revisionism. One Black immigrant of which we know very little about played the trumpet this means black people have been producing music in the UK since 1501. I'm surprised they didn't role out Cheddar Man and claim he played the trumpet, they always like to discuss Channel 4's historical fraud.
@Dracoti
18 күн бұрын
Exactly this. They are trying to brainwash the public, and sadly working.
@meme4one
18 күн бұрын
Pictures from that time also had cats and dogs playing the role of humans. It's not exactly documentary imagery.
@HOLLASOUNDS
17 күн бұрын
I love black music but the old image of a trumpeter means nothing, its just a guy probably playing someone eles music. If someone plays a instrument they are a musician and it does not mean there a artist who actually makes there own music.
A significant amount of My music is based off of what was black music first, including Hiphop, Drum n Bass and so on however I mixed that with what was white music first like classical and cinematic music. Hiphop beats and bass mixed with strings and piano basically which a hybrid of both white and black.
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@SereneSoulSessions-hb5ox
17 күн бұрын
She has ghost writers making her music ? She’s good at being a face but not a musical icon.
Woah pass the Dutchie (is it that as ism now?) was shot across the river from the houses, lol too funny 😂
Amazing piece
Love our British black music but no one explained in this clip why it was a lie that it came before the war
Pure dross leaving someone else holding the spoon!
I deleted what I said here because I misunderstood and my comment was inaccurate.
3:04 nailed it
Black music IS UK music. Without it we'd be on a par with Latvia. Everything comes from it. Stones, Beatles, reggae, jazz, dnb, house, soul.... everything.
@harry.flashman
17 күн бұрын
Black music isnt 500 years of UK music. Youve completely overlooked classical and folk music.
@DanAshford-ny6sq
16 күн бұрын
OMFG
_Genuinely_ never got this skin colour thing, and how some people can’t be doing with a different skin colour from their own. The colour of your skin bothers me not a jot; it’s only your _ideas_ I care about.
If you born in a stable,dosent make you as horse.we are all gods children,we as human beings are all related
BBC trying so desperately to rewrite history. England has never been ethnically black. Cheddar man was mischaracterised, and a single roman soldier from Carthage 2000 years ago. And what even is "black" music, since when does music have colour?
@pallascat1743
18 күн бұрын
This is channel 4.
@JamesSmith-qs4hx
18 күн бұрын
Built by Europeans for Europeans... The peak of civilisation, a beacon of achievement to the rest of the world.
@Dracoti
17 күн бұрын
@pallascat1743 Ngl I missed that. But they push the same narrative.
@DanAshford-ny6sq
16 күн бұрын
White people sing about love and other great things, the other lot "sing" about "getting paper" (money) "dems biatches" (women) and "da erb" (drugs)
Pass me the dutch bro
Great reporting 🎉🎉
More devisive BS
@DanAshford-ny6sq
16 күн бұрын
They love playing that black violin
What even is black music?
@Bungle-UK
18 күн бұрын
Gansta rap and stabbing
@schang8964
18 күн бұрын
good point
@stanspliff92
18 күн бұрын
All popular music genres.
@ivanrlynn
18 күн бұрын
No fucking idea mate
@JakeLDS
17 күн бұрын
Music that was originally created within black culture: blues, rock n roll, jazz, soul, funk, reggae, afrobeat, disco, hip hop, house, techno, jungle, garage, dubstep, grime etc
4:46 half Jamaican half British? Doesn't really makes sense. Britain stole Jamaica from the Spanish. (who in turn stole from the native arawak Indians) circa 16th century They then transported slaves from Africa.. Her parents who descended from Africa and just happened to be transported to Jamaica came to the UK in sixties for work. On the buses and trains etc. Clippies and ticket inspectors also traffic wardens. Yes she's British born. Certainly not Jamaican. Her forebears might from the gold Coast or ivory Coast etc? She certainly has other blood races mixed in her as her features are not from any particular genetic pure race? Its akin to saying my great grand parent was forced to live in Say. Japan then my father moved to the UK and i was born here so I'm half British and half Japanese? 😂
@byronleigh80
18 күн бұрын
Not Jamaican? Not according to Jamaican law. Read the Jamaican nationality law. Being Jamaican exists and it is not tied to being black. By the time Africans were transported to the Caribbean, West Africa as we know it didn’t exist. Coming from somewhere is part genetics and part culture.
@ciararespect4296
18 күн бұрын
@@byronleigh80 I Don't mean there isn't such a person as Jamaican She isn't however. If you study her history she was born in the UK so regardless of her parents birthplace she's just British to me. I also don't care about the law Yes. Culture plays a big part I never said being Jamaican was tied to being Black??, there are plenty of white Jamaicans around? Even reggae is copied from something else previous. So nothing new under the sun as they say We're all however from East Africa. It's been proven by the bones found in present day Ethiopia
@jujutrini8412
18 күн бұрын
Why do you care so much how SHE identifies herself? You can’t tell her how she feels. She knows more about her own roots than you do.
@globalist1990
16 күн бұрын
@@ciararespect4296if she is entitled to Jamaican citizenship, she is Jamaican.
I love the brit-funk era and street soul etc but can't stand that appalling Drill and grime stuff. Light of the world were much better musically than the boring stormzy.
No mention of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor or George Bridgetower. How disappointing.
@yoyopoplondon
17 күн бұрын
They are in the exhibition itself. Worth visiting
@sandraagard6320
10 күн бұрын
You need to see the exhibition
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Downvoting black nationalism/black supremacy.
excellent history
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@joshuataylor3550
18 күн бұрын
Sky daddy doesn't exist
So that's why there's so much terrible music today.
@johnrussell3961
18 күн бұрын
Blame Taylor Swift!
@ivanrlynn
18 күн бұрын
@@johnrussell3961it’s Jack Antonoffs lazy, uninspiring and AI like synths.
@HOLLASOUNDS
17 күн бұрын
@@ivanrlynn No its Trap and Mumble rap.
@HOLLASOUNDS
17 күн бұрын
I notice that black people start music but white people make it better, Way way better in many instances and then black people swtich to something eles every time it get taken over by white people.
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