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FreddyHeadey ADD: jamaican folk music (90* d) RE: ADD: jamaican folk music 25 Jul 25


As Louise Bennett is mentioned a few times in this thread ,,,

Kei Miller on Louise Bennett - 2021
BBC radio - The Essay - Caribbean Voices
The poet, folklorist and performer ‘Miss Lou’ made waves on air on both sides of the Atlantic. Coming to study at Rada in London shortly after WWII, her dialect verse was picked up and celebrated on the BBC through radio programmes like Caribbean Voices.
For writer Kei Miller, who lovingly recalls the magic her words worked on his mother, she is rightly seen as a hero back home in Jamaica.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000xd17
,,, and two minutes from a 1976 interview
Louise Bennett, Woman’s Hour
History of the BBC - 2018
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06d19nx


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