‘Bass Cultures: black music in the re-making of Britain 1968-now - Paul Gilroy’

Using a lot of examples and illustrations, Paul Gilroy will tell the history of black settlement in Britain through the music made during the last four decades. This narrative will address political, cultural and technological changes as well as inter-generation shifts. Paul Gilroy teaches at King’s College in London. He has worked at lots of different Universities. By day he is writing a book about planetary humanism and at night another one about music, time and subjectivity. He is the author of  There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation (1987), The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993), Darker than Blue. On the Moral Economies of Black Atlantic Cultures (2010).