Rights of Passage: Intergenerational Music and History Exchanges between London and Dakar
June 2021
About:
Young
and older people in Deptford and Dakar worked together in June 2021 to develop
an online multi-media project linking histories of the representation of the
trans-atlantic slavery in London and Dakar, alongside a sonic enquiry into the
musical strategies used to resist oppression and keep African cultural
traditions alive. This project was a partnership between Deptford People’s
Heritage Museum, University of East London Music Department, Goldsmiths,
University of London’s BA Curating and Cheikh Anta
Diop University, Dakar. It builds on the exhibition Chip on Your
Shoulder, held at the Museum in autumn 2021 and supported by the Naval Dockyard
Society and the Lenox Project.
︎(Click to see behind the scenes)