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17 Dec 2024
The story of Elsie Houston -- a Brazilian, classically trained soprano. Follow her artistic and social networks from Brazil to Paris and then on to New York to open the door to an unexpected history of race, sexuality, and society during the 20th century
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Feb 16
Catch up on yesterday evening's BBC Radio 3 Sunday Feature.
Miss Bartira was a Brazilian erotic cabaret act, and one of Europe's most celebrated 1930s showgirls. I talk with her grandson about her remarkable life in Brazil, France, and the UK.
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5 Nov 2025
He was a major modernist artist whose collaborators included Pablo Picasso, André Breton, and Aimé Césaire. Now, Cuban artist Wifredo Lam finally gets a retrospective worthy of his stature.
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27 Jul 2025
Aben Wo Ha is the soundtrack to every Ghanaian millennial's childhood. Rest in peace 🙏🏿
BBC News - 'Greatest in 100 years': Ghana mourns music legend Daddy Lumba
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17 Jul 2025
A fresh look at Dulwich Picture Gallery's collections through the black nude. Somaya Critchlow nytimes.com/2025/02/12/arts/…
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26 Mar 2025
Chiquinha Gonzaga was Brazil’s first woman conductor and composer. She integrated popular Brazilian music in her compositions, and shaped the sound of the Rio carnival. @NatashaLoges explores...
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4 Feb 2025
Yesterday evening I was in conversation with the wonderful Samira Ahmed on BBC Radio 4's Front Row. We discussed Josephine Baker's memoirs, published in English for the first time. Listen here
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The French Feminist Mystique rules tonight's @BBCFrontRow. @AdjoaOsei1 discusses Josephine Baker's terrific memoir - published in English for the 1st time. And the Oscar Nom writer/director of The Substance, Coralie Fargeat. 715pm Radio 4📻
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9 Jan 2025
On 7 March at the Royal Academy of Arts, I will be joined by musicians from the Black British Classical Foundation to explore Brazilian modernism in music, with live performances of the key compositions of modern brasilidade. Tickets available via the link
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12 Dec 2024
This is Christmas in Brazil. From a glorious midnight mass by baroque composer Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia, to piano gems from social revolutionary Chiquinha Gonzaga, and sun-soaked Christmas classics from the key architects of bossa nova.
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30 Nov 2024
Jon Coltrane: Legacy for Orchestra is a new live concert experience re-framing some of his greatest works. With trumpeter Giveton Gelin, saxophonist Denys Baptiste, the ground-breaking Nikki Yeoh Trio and the ever-versatile BBC Concert Orchestra,bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00253…
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21 Sep 2024
My BBC Radio 3 Essay about 2 London girls who became chorus girls in 1930s Paris. This one is all about the Plaza Tiller Girls. Airs Friday 27 September at 9.45pm
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7 Jun 2024
French impressionism, Black women and modernity. Who was the trapeze artist Miss La La? And why did Degas paint her? The National Gallery explores the trapeze artist who became the talk of 1870s Paris
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24 Mar 2024
Gilles Peterson celebrates the iconic Brazilian singer Jorge Ben's 85th birthday.
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13 Feb 2024
Samba school puts Rio’s long-silenced legacy of slavery at center of carnival
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12 Feb 2024
Culture writer Olivia Giovetti travels to New York City to investigate the legacy of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and to ask, 100 years after its premiere, is it possible to write a single piece of music that sums up America in 2024?
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12 Feb 2024
When the Nazis invaded France and searched Josephine Baker's home, she was hiding Resistance fighters in her basement. She distracted them through flirtation... apollo-magazine.com/josephin…
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2 Feb 2024
Soulscapes will explore our connection with the world around us through the eyes of artists from the African Diaspora. It will consider the power of landscape art and reflect on themes of belonging, memory, joy and transformation.
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2 Feb 2024
The Royal Academy’s Entangled Pasts, 1768-now, Art, Colonialism and Change stages several brilliant spectacles within an exhibition that explores black experience in contemporary art, and its refraction in art history’s white mirror
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