29-05-2018 13:09 via theguardian.com

Peter Brathwaite: Why I'm celebrating 'degenerate' music

Musicians calling for equal rights regardless of gender, race and sexuality in 1930s Germany were banned. We need their voices more than everA few weeks ago I posted a photograph on Twitter. Yellowed and cracked with age, it showed my mum as a young nurse in London, smiling, proud and starched in her puff- sleeved uniform. The Windrush scandal was raging and it pained me to hear the palpable sorrow in her Bajan lilt when we discussed the treatment of those who had been labelled “illegal&rd
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