Various: Listen, Whitey! The Sounds of Black Power - review

Light in the AtticPop's fading power to shock is thrown into stark relief by this compilation, conceived as the soundtrack to a new book of the same title that charts the black power struggles of the late 60s and early 70s. It's not as if anyone wants Ed Sheeran to start dressing like a French revolutionary, but he could do worse than listen to something like Roy Harper's I Hate the White Man, which envisages a happy future "where the crazy whiteman and his teargas happiness/ Lies dead and long ...

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