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Thread #76372   Message #1355148
Posted By: GeoffLawes
12-Dec-04 - 08:25 PM
Thread Name: Black Britons & Folk Music?
Subject: RE: Black Britons & Folk Music?
Azizi,you may be interested to find out about Ignatius Sancho (1729-1780) a black composer and former slave who lived in eighteenth century England who is credited with over thirty country dance tunes with dance instructions in an article by Julian Pilling in the English Dance and Song Society magazine English Dance and Song of Summer 1996. The article is very brief but refers to a book by Josephine R.B.Wright called Ignatius Sancho (1729-1780) An Early African Composer in England.