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Black By Design: A 2-Tone Memoir

Pauline Black

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Lead singer for platinum-selling 2-tone band The Selecter, Pauline Black has been in the music business for over thirty years. The only woman in a movement dominated by men, she was very much the Queen of British Ska. She saw The Specials, Madness, Dexy's Midnight Runners and all the other top bands of that generation at their very best ... and worst.

Black was born in 1953 of Anglo-Jewish/Nigerian parents. Adopted by a white, working class family in Romford in the fifties, Pauline was always made to feel different, both by the local community and members of her extended family, who saw her at best as a curiosity, at worst as an embarrassing inconvenience.

Weaving her rise to fame and recollections of the 2-tone phenomenon with her moving search for her birth parents, Black By Design is a funny and enlightening memoir of music and roots.

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Pages:: pages

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Publisher:: Serpent's Tail/Prolific Books Ltd.

Edition:: Main

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 184668790X

ISBN13:: 9781846687907

kindle Asin:: B005IH7EZY

Black By Design: A 2-Tone Memoir

Pauline Black

4.02/5 (233 ratings)

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Lead singer for platinum-selling 2-tone band The Selecter, Pauline Black has been in the music business for over thirty years. The only woman in a movement dominated by men, she was very much the Queen of British Ska. She saw The Specials, Madness, Dexy's Midnight Runners and all the other top bands of that generation at their very best ... and worst.

Black was born in 1953 of Anglo-Jewish/Nigerian parents. Adopted by a white, working class family in Romford in the fifties, Pauline was always made to feel different, both by the local community and members of her extended family, who saw her at best as a curiosity, at worst as an embarrassing inconvenience.

Weaving her rise to fame and recollections of the 2-tone phenomenon with her moving search for her birth parents, Black By Design is a funny and enlightening memoir of music and roots.

Format:

Pages:: pages

Publication:

Publisher:: Serpent's Tail/Prolific Books Ltd.

Edition:: Main

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 184668790X

ISBN13:: 9781846687907

kindle Asin:: B005IH7EZY

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