Black History Month – follow up

violin

For this year’s Black History Month, curator of classical music at The British Library, Johnathan Summers, chose to write a short piece about Eddie South who was a black American violinist. He explores Eddie’s journey to become a jazz violinist. This blog post includes an archive recording of Eddie playing Hejre Kati.

Reading this short piece of writing may inspire you to research more into the subject touched on the blog. Here are some starting points for you in the library collections:

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