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Author Black, Pauline

Title Black by Design : a 2-Tone Memoir
Published London : Profile, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (433 pages)
Contents Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PART ONE WHITE TO BLACK; PART TWO BLACK & WHITE; PART THREE BACK TO BLACK
Summary 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
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Subject Black, Pauline
2-Tone (Firm)
Selecter (Musical group)
SUBJECT 2-Tone (Firm) fast
Selecter (Musical group) fast
Subject Women singers -- Great Britain -- Biography
Singers -- Great Britain -- Biography
Women, Black -- Great Britain -- Biography
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Voice.
MUSIC -- Lyrics.
MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Vocal.
Singers
Women, Black
Women singers
Great Britain
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781847657626
1847657621