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Volume 2 takes the story from the mid-1960s to the 1990s as Black British music grew beyond the work of arrivants, passers-through and isolated individuals to become a music of communities who were here to stay, who created a richly hybrid music from multiple sources and even began to influence the musics of the societies from which their parents came.

This book focuses on Hendrix the songwriter, a superlative storyteller who was able to combine melody, lyric and arrangement in order to create pieces that take pride of place in the pantheon of post-war popular music.

The broadcaster behind BBC Radio 3's "Jazz Line-Up" presents the first in a two-part musical odyssey culminating in the present day, with this first volume beginning in Tudor times and tracing how black music in Britain has responded to empire, colonialism and the new freedoms of post-war Britain.

In Soul Unsung Le Gendre celebrates the contribution of players of instruments to soul. He analyses the inspiring creativity and imagination that several generations of musicians have brought to black pop, and highlights how they have broadened its sound canvas by adopting unusual stylistic approaches and embracing the latest technology.