{"id":14801,"date":"2026-04-27T17:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T17:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/black-british-music-takes-centre-stage-as-londons-va-east-opens-doors\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T17:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T17:54:13","slug":"black-british-music-takes-centre-stage-as-londons-va-east-opens-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/black-british-music-takes-centre-stage-as-londons-va-east-opens-doors\/","title":{"rendered":"Black British music takes centre stage as London&#039;s V&amp;A East opens doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/s.rfi.fr\/media\/display\/0256bf72-3d86-11f1-9b95-005056bfb2b6\/w:1024\/p:16x9\/Inside-V-A-East-Museum-s-inaugural-exhibition-The-Music-is-Black-A-British-Story-David-Parry-for-the-V-A-23.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><br \/>More than 125 years of black music in Britain is being celebrated in the inaugural exhibition at the new V&amp;A East museum in Stratford, London. RFI was at the opening to explore how music from\u00a0Africa, the Caribbean and North America merged to make a distinctly British sound.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/culture\/20260426-black-british-music-takes-centre-stage-as-london-s-v-a-east-opens-doors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 125 years of black music in Britain is being celebrated in the inaugural exhibition at the new V&amp;A East museum&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-mode-de-vie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}