[lit-ideas] Re: Bassey & Sillitoe (Is: Invisibility, Unhearability, ...
- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:38:22 +0100
Shirley Bassey does 'sing American', yes; but that's nothing to do with her
being from Cardiff, a lot of British pop singers do it. Yes, she's Welsh.
>I believe her mother was English and his father a West Indian sailor
her mother was English, her father Nigerian (a seaman, yes)
>Talking of West Indians (and their invisibility in the UK --
>and hence their lack of impact on the mainstream speech)
50 per cent of black Britons marry white Britons.
>is Alan Sillitoe's epoch-making film, "Saturday night, Sunday morning....
>the presence of a West Indian on a British 'flick' was thought too
revolutionary at the time.
the time being 1960.
>What a cosmopolitan, fascinating metropolitan area Cardiff must be -- just
>like Buenos Aires
not, I'd say. as interesting as Buenos Aires but yes, it is, perhaps
'multi-cultural' is better than cosmopolitan.
more about that, and Bassey, here!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southeast/sites/blackhistory/
Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK
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