2023-06-22
27 分钟Today, Britain celebrates Windrush Day. Chanté speaks to music journalist Lloyd Bradley, ‘Queen of Lover’s Rock’ Sandra Cross and grime MC D Double E about the influence of Caribbean culture on British music
This is the Guardian.
As Britain marks 75 years since the Empire Windrush arrived, we look at the dominance of Caribbean culture on British music.
London is the place for me.
I remember laying in my room, laying in my bedroom, hearing blues parties on the road.
Without sciences of culture, that wouldn't be any crime.
There wouldn't be any jungle.
You're listening to pop culture with me.
Shantae Joseph for the Guardian.
Let's go back in time to 1948, when hundreds of people from across the Commonwealth arrived at Tilbury Docks on the Empire Windrush.
And with it came a musical culture and energy that breathed fresh life into the British dance halls.
And most importantly, the sound system culture that went on to influence genres from Scar to reggae and lovers, rock, jungle and even grime.
But as all good stories start, let's go to the beginning.
Waiting at the docks for the first arrivals, the press were treated to a now famous rendition.
I'm told that you are really the king of the calypso singers.
Is it right?
Will you sing for us right now?
Yes.
London is the place for me.
Lord Kitchener was a Trinidadian musician and became an icon to those first Caribbean migrants.
You can go to France or America.