Black History: Arts and Music
No. of pages 48
Published: 2014
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This book is part of a book series called Black History .
This book is aimed at children in primary school.
There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Hachette Children's Group .
Dan Lyndon has been teaching for over 15 years, and is former head of history at Henry Compton School, London. He is a member of the Black and Asian Studies Association (BASA).
This book has the following chapters:
- 1: Introduction
- 2: The music of Africa
- 3: Music and slavery
- 4: The actor - Ira Aldridge
- 5: The composer - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
- 6: Images of black people in art
- 7: The Harlem Renaissance
- 8: The London scene
- 9: Writing the Civil Rights Movement
- 10: Motown
- 11: Jimi Hendrix
- 12: The reggae beat
- 13: Dub poets - Kwesi-Johnson, Zephaniah
- 14: Punk and two-tone
- 15: From hip hop to dubstep
- 16: Contemporary writers, artists and musicians
- 17: Timeline
- 18: Websites and Bibliography
This book is in the following series:
