Throughout the history, Jeffrey Boakye offers a backdrop of a musical playlist, beginning with Lord Kitchener, travelling through Two-Tone to Grime. Then we move to Bristol and the bus boycott of 1955, that forced the local bus company to hire non-white people in its service. Context is key, and the playlist from Musical Truth helps provide colour and atmosphere to this taut and cogent collection of social history essays. He now presents public talks on these subjects, as well as appearing on radio, and producing two regular podcast series.

The use of songs to mark the chronology adds to the power of the narrative, with the story of each artist told alongside the over-arching themes. His journey as a DJ, than his experiences and discovery which he shares, added validity to this book. This unique book for teens and adults provides a musical history of Modern Black Britain in 28 songs. Now, what teenager, in any era, wouldn’t want to create a multimedia scrapbook soundtrack of their life experiences peppered with biography, review, political statement, angst, a sense of history and self?I often listen to “Musical Youth”, a segment in Trevor Nelson’s Rhythm Nation, in which people describe pivotal points in their life through a song.

There’s an inspirational documentary produced by Sky Arts that explores the narrative and urban history that planted the seed for Soul to Soul’s seminal album Club Classics Volume 1. Each song is a jumping off point for deeper social, political and historical analysis, tracking key moments in Black history, and the emotional impact of both the songs and the artists who performed them. What’s more, we see how influential the music of the time is to current events, from Eddy Grant’s Brixton set Electric Avenue to Stormzy‘s Vossi Bop. From national emblems to corporate logos and emojis, our day-to-day lives abound with icons with roots in the distant past. Throughout the millennia Turkey formed the core of several Empires–Persia, Rome, Byzantium–before becoming the center of the Ottoman Empire.This book encourages children to review and reconsider the historical events, societal change and politics that underpins these songs, to help them form their own opinions. What’s more, Britain encouraged this immigration, as workers were needed to restart the country after WWII. An exploration of these themes in the visual arts reveals how architecture, sculpture and painting simultaneously shape, reflect, and document the culture of the time and place they were created. It’s a fantastic independent book seller that will actually be responsive and select appropriate books for you. Home to William Golding, Sylvia Plath, Kazuo Ishiguro, Sally Rooney, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Max Porter, Ingrid Persaud, Anna Burns and Rachel Cusk, among many others, Faber is proud to publish some of the greatest novelists from the early twentieth century to today.

Tom Tolkien is an experienced teacher and educational consultant who taught for 20 years in primary and secondary schools, including Woodleigh School in North Yorkshire, where he was Head of English and ran a 4000 book prep school library for pupils aged 3-13. Have to go, apparently Duran Duran's music video 'Union of the Snake' has very different connotations once you know what to look for 😁. All these civilizations have left their marks on the landscape, architecture and art of Turkey–a place of fascinating overlapping cultures.Traveller’s History of Turkey offers a concise and readable account of the region from prehistory right up to the present day. A concise, reader-friendly illustrated survey of Western art and architecture from prehistory to the present day. The book, when accompanied with the Spotify playlist is a snippet in time, with the text providing the context and history of the period in which each track was released. Boakye sends out his address to children everywhere because, as the kid says at the start of ‘ Pass the Dutchie’, ‘ This generation rules the nation’.

There are the few times where he corrects himself but it adds to the charm of hearing him read the words . The book shows how these agendas fit into the much wider picture of what's really going on in the world, and--crucially--how the power lies with us to bring it to an end. Sonny’s Lettah by Linton Kwesi Johnson could be used in a range of lessons – from literacy in KS3, KS4 poetry studies or PSHE.Or the overt use of occult imagery and rousing music during the London 2012 Olympics and Madonna's 2013 Super Bowl half time performance appearing in the regalia of the ancient Sumerian goddess Inanna-Ishtar, Madonna was quoted as saying afterwards in an interview to explain the ideas behind the performance as "The Super Bowl is kind of like the Holy of Holies in America. While a context for debate and thought is set, the reader is encouraged to be independent and the non-fiction narrative will help them form their own opinions. I think it's really poignant, I think it's really important and I think it's really accessible to be able to talk about these things via music.