London's unique and glorious music scene is unlike any other city's

The Olympics offer us a chance to celebrate the capital's musical heritage, and the genres that could only have been inspired by its diverse, overlapping culturesA few years ago, the English Folk Dance and Song Society and the non-profit organisation Sing London published an illustrated song booklet called Singing Histories: London, an attempt to tell the story of London through historic song. There were street-traders' rhymes; ditties about love, war, crime and punishment; ballads about the riv...

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