Living Is Hard: West African Music in Britain 1927-1929
Living Is Hard: West African Music in Britain 1927-1929
表演者: Various Artists
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 2008-05-27
唱片数: 1
出版者: Honest Jon's
条形码: 5099920825423
专辑简介
Honest Jon's has prepared a series drawing on some of the earliest recordings in the EMI Hayes Archive, recovered from more than 150,000 78s, staggering music from Iraq, Turkey, Caucasia, Lebanon, Iran (including sides made in Old Street, London, in 1909), Egypt and the Belgian Congo. This series opener presents the music of the West African underground of 1920s Britain, recorded at Hayes and released on the Zonophone label (which exported nearly all the records to West Africa). You can hear Caribbean influences here, the promise of highlife there, but Living Is Hard mostly disavows fusion and assimilation. And by contrast with antecedents in the history of black music in Britain, minstrelsy and spirituals, for example, ragtime and jazz.
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Alahira - John Mugat