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DESCRIPTION:Apr 18\, 2026 - Jan 3\, 2027\nBrit funk\, two-tone\, lovers roc
 k\, jungle\, drum and bass\, trip-hop\, UK garage\, grime—the genres tha
 t have defined British popular culture over the past half century were cre
 ated by Black British musicians\, often in the face of institutional indif
 ference or outright hostility. That argument\, stated plainly\, is the pre
 mise of a major new exhibition inaugurating the brand-new V&A East Museum 
 in Stratford\, part of one of the most ambitious cultural developments in 
 Britain in a generation. The show spans 125 years and features such goodie
 s as Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s conducting baton from the early 1900s\, J
 oan Armatrading’s childhood guitar\, the jacket Skin wore when she becam
 e the first Black woman to headline the Glastonbury Festival\, in 1997\, a
 nd the dress Shirley Bassey wore to perform Goldfinger at the 2013 Academy
  Awards. The case it makes is not a niche one: British music is Black musi
 c.
LOCATION:V&A East\, Parkes Street\, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park\, Hackney 
 Wick\, London\, E20 3AX
SUMMARY:The Music is Black: A British Story
URL;VALUE=TEXT:https://airmail.news/arts-intel/events/the-music-is-black-a-
 british-story
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