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As events in the US have shown, there’s nothing new about the the right wing subverting radical and popular music for its own ends, says OSKAR COX JENSEN
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PETER MASON is exhilarated by an exciting, well-considered and historically minded tribute to the great Trinidadian instrument
Reducing historical lives to ‘male’ and ‘female’ roles, we lose the nuance of those lives and a clearer understanding of past societies, suggests CLAIRE ISABELLA GILMOUR
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AMID the serious criminal offences committed during the recent breach of the US Capitol, one prominent trespass was against good taste.
Numerous commentators, including original I Three singers Marcia Griffiths and Judy Mowatt, took exception to Trump supporters singing Bob Marley classics Three Little Birds and One Love.
The sound of white nationalists appropriating Afro-Caribbean music — though all too familiar in the Britain of the 1970s and ’80s — was considered both offensive and surprising.
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