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The Documentary

Black Music in Europe

Late 1950s-1960s

Duration: 27 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC World Service AustralasiaLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service News Internet

Available for over a year

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) Show less

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