Sounds Like London: 100 Years of Black Music Brutalism helping our minds to become

helping our minds to become more reliable lightning rods for our numerous flashes of inspiration

Why do we make music

Anya Gallaccio

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Sounds Like London: 100 Years of Black Music Brutalism helping our minds to becomeFor as long as people have been migrating to London, so has their music. An essential link to home, music also has the power to shape communities in surprising ways. Black music has been part of London's landscape since the First World War, when the Southern Syncopated Orchestra brought jazz to the capital. Following the wave of Commonwealth immigration, its sounds and styles took up residence to become the foundation of the city's youth culture.