Black Is A Country

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012012010520120726 (R4)Singer and songwriter Erykah Badu presents a two-part series exploring the extraordinary underground music generated by the Black Power movement of the late Sixties and early Seventies: radical, beautiful and rare

Contributors include: Ornette Coleman, Archie Shepp, founder of the Black Arts Movement Amiri Baraka, Black Arts poet Sonia Sanchez, jazz flautist Lloyd McNeil, Abiodun Oyewole of the Last Poets, Gill Scott Heron's co-writer Brian Jackson, hip-hop artist Talib Kweli and former Black Panther leader and songwriter Elaine Brown.

Presenter: Erykah Badu

Producer: Simon Hollis

A Brook Lapping Production for BBC Radio 4.

Singer-songwriter Erykah Badu explores the music generated by the Black Power movement.

Exploring the underground music generated by the Black Power and Black Arts movements

022012011220120921 (R4)Singer and songwriter Erykah Badu presents a two-part series exploring the extraordinary underground music generated by the Black Power movement of the late Sixties and early Seventies: radical, beautiful and rare.

Contributors include: Ornette Coleman, Archie Shepp, founder of the Black Arts Movement Amiri Baraka, Black Arts poet Sonia Sanchez, jazz flautist Lloyd McNeil, Abiodun Oyewole of the Last Poets, Gill Scott Heron's co-writer Brian Jackson, hip-hop artist Talib Kweli and former Black Panther leader and songwriter Elaine Brown.

Presenter: Erykah Badu

Producer: Simon Hollis

A Brook Lapping Production for BBC Radio 4.

Singer-songwriter Erykah Badu explores the music generated by the Black Power movement.

Exploring the underground music generated by the Black Power and Black Arts movements