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Playing with the language of music

The pre-concert talk provides an overview to the series and...

Freedom Song: The Fisk Jubilee Singers' Story

A choir of ex-slaves, raising funds to build their University, toured America from 1871, suffering discrimination and hardship.

Bridgetower – Black Musicians and British Culture, 1807-2007

George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower, the son of an Abyssinian slave...

Voices of the Land: Nga Reo o te Whenua

In his solo presentation of traditional instruments (taonga puoro), Richard...

Theatre and Language: Samuel Beckett, 'Waiting for Godot'

Beckett's Waiting for Godot has been interpreted in myriad ways...

Literary Activism in Contemporary Africa

Literature has always played a key role in social and...

Why learn a language?

With English emerging as the main world language, studying foreign...

Talking with Beasts: Human and animal languages

Slavery - The US perspective: From the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement

Dr Alan Sked, The London School of Economics and Political...