The
African / Caribbean Inventive & Innovative Musical
Influence on Britain.
In
music, the African contribution to the UK is both rich and
historically embedded. It's a contribution, which can still be heard,
felt and seen to this present day. Most likely music of some sort (be
it humming using the human voice or tapping stones together) has been
around for as long as man has inhabited this planet.
A
more recent movement of African Music, from the Americas to the UK
“....With
travel to the UK from America and the Caribbean during the 1800s (as
slave trade was coming to an end) and in particular the 1900s
especially after the emancipation both in Americas and Caribbean
England would gain a plethora of African diasporian music styles. If
we look at post Windrush (circa1948), we find it was the Africans
that introduced Rock n Roll to England. Many English people thought
they new what Rock n Roll was when they heard the likes of Bill
Haley, Pat Boone and Elvis Presley, until the likes of Chuck Berry,
Fats Domino and Little Richard, were unleashed on them. It was at
this point doing the 1950s and 60s that many British acts (that went
on to be internationally famous and making billions of pounds over
their combined musical careers!) were studying and copying African
America / Caribbean music inventions, innovations and styles.
You only have to listen to some of the biggest artists to ever come out of the UK on what they have to say about their influences therefore the Tommy steele, Cliff Richard, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Animals, Tom Jones, Englebert Humperdinck, Dusty Springfield, Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton, Lulu, etc. just to name but a few. So you must be able to see from this paragraph that if Elvis Presley is known today as the king, then African musicians of that time were the king makers...” Extract from Black Scientists & Inventors in the UK: Millenniums of Inventions & Innovations - © Williams & Amalemba, 2014.
You only have to listen to some of the biggest artists to ever come out of the UK on what they have to say about their influences therefore the Tommy steele, Cliff Richard, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Animals, Tom Jones, Englebert Humperdinck, Dusty Springfield, Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton, Lulu, etc. just to name but a few. So you must be able to see from this paragraph that if Elvis Presley is known today as the king, then African musicians of that time were the king makers...” Extract from Black Scientists & Inventors in the UK: Millenniums of Inventions & Innovations - © Williams & Amalemba, 2014.
“We
are the drum, the Americas to the UK we are the drum..” - Williams. (adopted from the Sound of Blackness)
Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers. The
original boy band, that could write their own songs. Inspired boy
bands in the US, UK and around the world.
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The Osmon Brothers with
an RnB tune.
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Little Richard the architect of Rock n Roll. |
Little Richard's Tutti From starts on
2.26 mins.
| Little Richard Track "Tutti Frutti" |
Prince Buster a pioneer of Ska and
inspired a new generation of UK artist.
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All inspired from Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers. |