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The New York School.
Down town Manhattan in the 1950’s was the backdrop for what would become one of the most intriguing movements in poetic history. Despite the movement becoming known as the New York School; it was not a formal institution but rather a group of artists and poets similar in both style and outlook. The name was…
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Blues and the great migration.
During the 1940’s many great blues players were among those who chose to leave the delta and migrate towards Chicago. For some it was an escape the apartheid, some a way of finding work and making a living, for others it was a way to avoid the vagrancy laws which would see them imprisoned ….