Black History Month Bringing black music to the cultural mainstream


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Kevin Le Gendre [ +] Journalist and Broadcaster The history of soul music has been defined, first and foremost, by a succession of exceptional vocalists. It is impossible to conceive of the genre without them.


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Kevin Le Gendre is a journalist and broadcaster and writer with a special interest in black music. Deputy editor of Echoes, he contributes to a wide range of publications that include Jazzwise,.


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FOR Kevin Le Gendre, the lilting sound of the steel pan is symbolic of how black music has embedded itself into British culture. It's come all the way from Trinidad, where it was invented in the 1930s, to a shopping mall and high street near you — not to mention its annual showcasing at the Notting Hill Carnival.


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Inside The British Jazz Invasion with writer Kevin Le Gendre Above: Binker Golding, one half of the sax and drum duo Binker & Moses Credit: Xoel Freire (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)


Black History Month Bringing black music to the cultural mainstream

Kevin Le Gendre is a British journalist, broadcaster and author whose work focuses on Black music. He is deputy editor of Echoes magazine, has written for a wide range of publications, including Jazzwise, MusicWeek, Vibrations, The Independent On Sunday and The Guardian, and is a contributor to such radio programmes as BBC Radio 3's J to Z and BBC Radio 4's Front Row.


13 April 2016 it's not jazz; it's social music Cosmic Jazz

Kevin Le Gendre's book is superbly written, extremely insightful, and will be of interest to scholars, musicians, and anyone else seeking a deeper understanding of developments in the soul canon from the 1960s to present, especially the complex interplay between singers and musicians. Le Gendre's central premise in Soul Unsung is that.


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Composer Ray Lee talks to broadcaster and journalist Kevin Le Gendre about his new piece, 'Ring Out', for PRS Foundation's New Music Biennial 2017.PRS Founda.


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Kevin Le Gendre, long-time music journalist, jazz expert, radio broadcaster and deputy editor of Echoes, has produced a meticulously researched, compassionate and sweeping opus of the history of.


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Kevin Le Gendre is a journalist and broadcaster and writer with a special interest in black music.


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Kevin Le Gendre Verified Deputy Editor, Echoes Magazine Contributor, BBC Radio 3 London Arts and Entertainment, United Kingdom As seen in: BBC Radio 3, Echoes Magazine, The Guardian, The Independent, Yahoo Canada, Sight & Sound, BFI, All About Jazz, The Times Literary Supplement, Jazzwise, fmq.fi Is this you?


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Based on: Don't Stop the Carnival: Black music in Britain by Gendre Kevin Le (Leeds: Peepal Tree Press), 374 pp. £19.96. If you're seeking the history of a people, listen and hearken to their music, the sounds that have followed and expressed their periods of oppression, their key moments, struggles and victories.


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Kevin Le Gendre . Reviews by Kevin Le Gendre . Showing 1 - 50 of 68 < 1 2 > Dance & Electronica. Herbert Complete Herbert . Ten-year overview showcasing the talent of an electro A-lister.


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Kevin Le Gendre Thu 24 Mar 2022 04.00 EDT W hen asked what was the best song he had ever written, the jazz great Duke Ellington famously quipped that it was one yet to come. He held out the.


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Kevin Le Gendre ISBN number 9781845233617 Pages 374 Price £19.99 Classification Music Cultural Studies History Country setting United Kingdom Publication date 24 May 2018 The story of Black music in Britain and the people who made it, from Tudor times to the mid 1960s.—


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Kevin Le Gendre is a British journalist, broadcaster and author whose work focuses on Black music.