The Music is Black illustrated by Cece Bell author of Everyday Dorie

author of Everyday Dorie

These women dared to put pen to paper to express the multifaceted female experience

Or is he fated to be lost in space forever

Filled with full‑color photographs

The Music is Black illustrated by Cece Bell author of Everyday DorieEpic in scope and personal recollection, The Music Is Black is the story of British imperial and colonial histories, the African diaspora, and contemporary British social history put into song. Black British music has been the soundtrack to periods of profound political, social, cultural, and demographic change. It is the music of identity, indefatigability, resistance, anger, celebration, love, loss; it is the music of possibility and hope. Opening