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World Service,29 Aug 2020,26 mins

SeriesBlack Music in Europe

Late 1950s-1960s

The Documentary

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Clarke explores the variety of Black music produced in Europe in the late 1950s and early 1960s - Congolese rumba recorded in Brussels, Algerian chaabi in Paris and the emergence of the Notting Hill Carnival in London. We also hear how North African music inspired a revolution in folk guitar. (Photo: Clark Peters. Credit:: Alexandra Quinn)

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