Our new Black History resource – Black Singers and Folk Ballads – is designed for secondary educators (Key Stage 3 and above) of Music, English, Drama and History.
The freely downloadable resource materials – a video, 14 audio files and a supporting PDF – reflect on music-making among enslaved people in former British colonies in the Southern US and Caribbean.
Creating this resource has been an amazing opportunity to delve into a little-researched and little-discussed area of folk song history and to produce something that will hopefully help to inspire another generation of folk music enthusiasts – Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne
The resource has been written by musician and singer Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne, working with singer Germa Adan and storyteller Alison Solomon. Its materials explore how songs have been adapted and yet remained very similar across the Atlantic.
The resource presents four songs and stories which were sung by black singers, together with the songs’ history and associated creative tasks.
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