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Last broadcast on Mon, 31 May 2010, 00:15 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
From Curtis Mayfield to 50 Cent, from Nina Simone to JayZ, black music has declined in its quality and lost its moral stance. That's the contention of the cultural critic Paul Gilroy. He joins Laurie Taylor and Caspar Melville to discuss the counter-cultural stance that black popular music once had, and explore whether it really has been destroyed.
Producer: Charlie Taylor.
Paul Gilroy
Paul Gilroy, Anthony Giddens Professor of Social Theory at the London School of Economics
Darker Than Blue; On the Moral Economies of Black Atlantic Culture
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN-10: 0674035704
ISBN-13: 978-0674035706
Caspar Melville
Caspar Melville, Music Journalist, Editor of New Humanist and former lecturer in popular music studies at Goldsmiths, London University
Broadcasts
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Wed 26 May 201016:00
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Mon 31 May 201000:15
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