Black Performance in Birmingham:
Publications
Peter Fryer (1984) Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain [Pluto Press]
Paul Oliver (ed.) (1990) Black Music in Britain: Essays on the Afro-Asian Contribution to Popular Music [Open University Press]
Rainer Lotz and Ian Pegg (eds.) (1986) Under the Imperial Carpet: Essays in Black History 1780-1950 [Rabbit Press]
Harry Reynolds (1928) Minstrel Memories [Alston Rivers Ltd], in the Charles Parker Library, Birmingham City Archives
Eslanda Goode Robeson (1930) Paul Robeson Negro [Victor Gollancz Ltd.]
Viv Broughton (1985) Black Gospel [Blandford Press]
Robert Darden (2005) People Ger Ready! A New History of Black Gospel Music [Continuum]
Martin Stokes (ed.) (1994) Ethnicity, Identity and Music [Berg]
London is the Place for Me 2: Calypso & Kwela, Highlife & Jazz from Young Black London [CD – Music, Birmingham Central Library]
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Websites
www.benjaminzephaniah.com
http://www.black-history-month.co.uk
http://www.futurehistories.org.uk
http://www.peopleplayuk.org.uk/timelines/black_performance.php
http://www.vam.ac.uk/tco/subjects/black_performance/black_performance_guide Victoria and Albert Museum collections
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/ihas/html/dunham Katherine Dunham at the Library of Congress
http://www.mohistory.org/content/KatherineDunham
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People's Performers: Radio, Drama and Politics:
Publications
Trevor Fisher (1986) Charles Parker, Aspects of a Pioneer: A Personal View by Trevor Fisher
[Published by The Charles Parker Archive].
Alan D. Filewod and David Watt (2001) Worker's Playtime: Theatre and the Labour Movement Since 1970 [Currency Press].
David Watt, ‘The Maker and the Tool’: Charles Parker, Documentary Performance, and the Search for a Popular Culture.
New Theatre Quarterly, 19:1 (Feb 2003).
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Websites
Banner Theatre Company: www.bannertheatre.co.uk
Radio ballads on the BBC: www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/radioballads
Peggy Seeger Website : www.pegseeger.com
Oral History Society: www.ohs.org.uk
The Friends of Philip Donnellan Society: www.philipdonnellan.co.uk
Charles Parker Archive Trust: www.cpatrust.org.uk
Working Class Movement Library: www.wcml.org.uk
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