500 years of music: exhibition challenges when Black British music began

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  • čas přidán 27. 04. 2024
  • 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.

Komentáře • 116

  • @mindblown42069
    @mindblown42069 Před 15 dny +27

    I dont think anyone with a brain has ever said black music didnt exist in britain till the 1940s

    • @joshuataylor3550
      @joshuataylor3550 Před 15 dny +2

      Exactly the point of this

    • @johnrussell3961
      @johnrussell3961 Před 15 dny

      Black music doesn’t have to be performed by blacks. Blues was played by whites . Eric Clapton ranks along side BB king..

    • @astroboirap
      @astroboirap Před 15 dny +7

      500 years of weed, stabbing and r a p e

    • @user-wq6sz7vt3w
      @user-wq6sz7vt3w Před 15 dny +1

      @@joshuataylor3550time for you to chill out man!

    • @SuperJAMAICAJAMAICA
      @SuperJAMAICAJAMAICA Před 15 dny

      John Blanke's contribution should have been given more prominence.....czcams.com/video/fCm6Fx2cwAs/video.htmlsi=Ibuns7EEx1kFgiXr

  • @CriticalTheoryIsNonsense
    @CriticalTheoryIsNonsense Před 15 dny +14

    You can try to rewrite history all you like, we all know the reality and it's not what you're preaching.

    • @globalist1990
      @globalist1990 Před 14 dny

      You know the guitar came from Northern Africa into Europe, right?

    • @CriticalTheoryIsNonsense
      @CriticalTheoryIsNonsense Před 14 dny +1

      @@globalist1990 And what exactly does that claim have to do with this?

    • @globalist1990
      @globalist1990 Před 14 dny

      @@CriticalTheoryIsNonsense it's a fact, bud.

    • @CriticalTheoryIsNonsense
      @CriticalTheoryIsNonsense Před 14 dny +2

      @@globalist1990 Is it? So what does it have to do with this subject, or do you not know either?

    • @globalist1990
      @globalist1990 Před 14 dny

      @@CriticalTheoryIsNonsense you obviously don't know much about history.

  • @johnrussell3961
    @johnrussell3961 Před 15 dny +18

    Jazz arrived in the 1920’s . Blues arrived after the war.

    • @ownerpeasant
      @ownerpeasant Před 15 dny +4

      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.

  • @JamesSmith-qs4hx
    @JamesSmith-qs4hx Před 15 dny +9

    Black British is an oxymoron.🤨

  • @ivanrlynn
    @ivanrlynn Před 15 dny +5

    “Fought their way into the charts” wow… what an insult

  • @marcusparkus682
    @marcusparkus682 Před 15 dny +7

    Misleading title and intro. Come on...?

  • @mark8544
    @mark8544 Před 14 dny +6

    More devisive BS

  • @antonia3292
    @antonia3292 Před 14 dny +2

    500 Years?

  • @serraangel7465
    @serraangel7465 Před 14 dny +4

    Dude Marvin Gaye and Stevie wonder wrote political music in the 70s

    • @spreadgoodenergy6051
      @spreadgoodenergy6051 Před 5 dny +1

      So many black Americans made political music in the 1960s and 1970s. He really could have left black Americans out of the conversation.

  • @BlogofTheW3st
    @BlogofTheW3st Před 15 dny +12

    This is simply the culture
    war raging in England.

  • @levystein666
    @levystein666 Před 15 dny +4

    Robbin and Lootin music 😂

  • @bollockchop501
    @bollockchop501 Před 14 dny +2

    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.

  • @alanharniess9298
    @alanharniess9298 Před 15 dny +4

    Very misleading. No more to say .

  • @entertainmentworldsoldier

    This entire report just showed musicians from the 80s and a singer singing now where's the ones before world war II

  • @corndogius5706
    @corndogius5706 Před 15 dny +1

    Expands the narrative whilst simultaneously reducing it's historical scope.

  • @martinjohnson2549
    @martinjohnson2549 Před 14 dny

    Where can I see an exhibition on polish music arriving in UK?

  • @bushsymphony6283
    @bushsymphony6283 Před 13 dny +2

    Samuel Coleridge - one of the composers

    • @zenster1097
      @zenster1097 Před 3 dny

      Not black. Stop promoting black supremacy.

  • @normanbrown9225
    @normanbrown9225 Před 15 dny +2

    When The FIRST DRUM BEAT SOUNDED IN AFRICA COUNTLESS YEARS AGO.❤

  • @educocult
    @educocult Před 15 dny

    So much incredible stuff packed into 5 minutes!

  • @gareth449
    @gareth449 Před 15 dny +3

    Divide and Conquer

  • @garyc9908
    @garyc9908 Před 15 dny +6

    So what music is couourless

    • @ivanrlynn
      @ivanrlynn Před 14 dny +1

      the best thing about music is that it is invisable

    • @chrispowell8121
      @chrispowell8121 Před 14 dny +3

      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
      @ivanrlynn Před 14 dny

      @@chrispowell8121 and who exaxtly is meant to remember other than those who appreciated that art

    • @chrispowell8121
      @chrispowell8121 Před 14 dny

      @@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
      @ivanrlynn Před 14 dny

      @@chrispowell8121who cares? is the question

  • @woden3894
    @woden3894 Před 15 dny +14

    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
      @Dracoti Před 15 dny

      Exactly this. They are trying to brainwash the public, and sadly working.

    • @meme4one
      @meme4one Před 15 dny +2

      Pictures from that time also had cats and dogs playing the role of humans. It's not exactly documentary imagery.

    • @HOLLASOUNDS
      @HOLLASOUNDS Před 15 dny +2

      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.

  • @jonathaneffemey944
    @jonathaneffemey944 Před 15 dny

    Thanks for posting

  • @HOLLASOUNDS
    @HOLLASOUNDS Před 15 dny

    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.

  • @user-wq6sz7vt3w
    @user-wq6sz7vt3w Před 15 dny +2

    Pure dross leaving someone else holding the spoon!

  • @dennythegreek
    @dennythegreek Před 15 dny +1

    Love our British black music but no one explained in this clip why it was a lie that it came before the war

  • @WalshyFire
    @WalshyFire Před 14 dny

    Amazing piece

  • @ivanrlynn
    @ivanrlynn Před 15 dny

    Woah pass the Dutchie (is it that as ism now?) was shot across the river from the houses, lol too funny 😂

  • @matterdowe4350
    @matterdowe4350 Před 15 dny +2

    Nia archives should be a global superstar

    • @SereneSoulSessions-hb5ox
      @SereneSoulSessions-hb5ox Před 14 dny

      She has ghost writers making her music ? She’s good at being a face but not a musical icon.

  • @thomas79marshall
    @thomas79marshall Před 15 dny

    3:04 nailed it

  • @ingridseim1379
    @ingridseim1379 Před 15 dny +1

    I deleted what I said here because I misunderstood and my comment was inaccurate.

  • @techtinkerin
    @techtinkerin Před 15 dny

    Pass me the dutch bro

  • @bollockchop501
    @bollockchop501 Před 14 dny

    If you born in a stable,dosent make you as horse.we are all gods children,we as human beings are all related

  • @AsherKhazar
    @AsherKhazar Před 14 dny +4

    Azerbaijan supports Israel not just verbally as many other "supporters", but indeed and in real time! Shalom to Jerusalem from Baku! Your victory is our victory! 🇦🇿❤️🇮🇱

  • @titteryenot4524
    @titteryenot4524 Před 15 dny +5

    _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.

  • @jujutrini8412
    @jujutrini8412 Před 15 dny

    No mention of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor or George Bridgetower. How disappointing.

  • @ciararespect4296
    @ciararespect4296 Před 15 dny +2

    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
      @byronleigh80 Před 15 dny +1

      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
      @ciararespect4296 Před 15 dny

      @@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
      @jujutrini8412 Před 15 dny +3

      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
      @globalist1990 Před 14 dny

      @@ciararespect4296if she is entitled to Jamaican citizenship, she is Jamaican.

  • @H-ME2003
    @H-ME2003 Před 15 dny +16

    What even is black music?

    • @Bungle-UK
      @Bungle-UK Před 15 dny +7

      Gansta rap and stabbing

    • @schang8964
      @schang8964 Před 15 dny +1

      good point

    • @stanspliff92
      @stanspliff92 Před 15 dny +3

      All popular music genres.

    • @ivanrlynn
      @ivanrlynn Před 15 dny +2

      No fucking idea mate

    • @JakeLDS
      @JakeLDS Před 15 dny +5

      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

  • @georginacasey6648
    @georginacasey6648 Před 15 dny

    Great reporting 🎉🎉

  • @Dracoti
    @Dracoti Před 15 dny +9

    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
      @pallascat1743 Před 15 dny +8

      This is channel 4.

    • @JamesSmith-qs4hx
      @JamesSmith-qs4hx Před 15 dny

      Built by Europeans for Europeans... The peak of civilisation, a beacon of achievement to the rest of the world.

    • @Dracoti
      @Dracoti Před 15 dny +3

      @pallascat1743 Ngl I missed that. But they push the same narrative.

    • @DanAshford-ny6sq
      @DanAshford-ny6sq Před 13 dny

      White people sing about love and other great things, the other lot "sing" about "getting paper" (money) "dems biatches" (women) and "da erb" (drugs)

  • @alingard1
    @alingard1 Před 15 dny +3

    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.

  • @richardmccrorie5814
    @richardmccrorie5814 Před 13 dny

    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.

  • @levystein666
    @levystein666 Před 15 dny

    WE

  • @zenster1097
    @zenster1097 Před 3 dny

    Downvoting black nationalism/black supremacy.

  • @mark8544
    @mark8544 Před 14 dny

    ....of all the things you open up with and you choose Musical Youth.....im %^&ing offended and im public enemy #1 (middle aged white man).....

  • @fintamaria2429
    @fintamaria2429 Před 14 dny

    👏👏👏

  • @kevinwilliams1768
    @kevinwilliams1768 Před 14 dny

    excellent history

  • @user-zi8qe6tf9f
    @user-zi8qe6tf9f Před 15 dny +1

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  • @JessicaZane4realz
    @JessicaZane4realz Před 15 dny +8

    So that's why there's so much terrible music today.

    • @johnrussell3961
      @johnrussell3961 Před 15 dny +1

      Blame Taylor Swift!

    • @ivanrlynn
      @ivanrlynn Před 15 dny

      @@johnrussell3961it’s Jack Antonoffs lazy, uninspiring and AI like synths.

    • @HOLLASOUNDS
      @HOLLASOUNDS Před 15 dny +2

      @@ivanrlynn No its Trap and Mumble rap.

    • @HOLLASOUNDS
      @HOLLASOUNDS Před 15 dny

      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.

  • @fuckbankers
    @fuckbankers Před 15 dny

    Silly games ❤