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Exhibition: Paris-Londres Music Migrations at Museum of Migration, Paris 12 March 2019 to 5 January 2020  The exhibition Between the early 1960s and the late 1980s, a wealth of musical styles linked with successive waves of immigration transformed Paris and London into multicultural capitals.  Paris-London. Music Migrations  is an immersive, chronological exploration of three pivotal decades in the musical history of Paris and London. In the late 20th century, in Paris and London more than anywhere else, music embodied the way in which migration was profoundly reshaping the identity of these two former capitals of colonial empires. From the independence of Jamaica and Algeria in 1962 through to the late 1980s, this exhibition explores three decades which saw Paris and London metamorphose into multicultural capitals. Generations of postcolonial immigrants and their children expressed their joys, hopes and aspirations through music. Focusing on the production, dissemination...

Exhibition: Paris-Londres Music Migrations at Museum of Migration, Paris 12 March 2019 to 5 January 2020  Music Migrations (1962-1989) paris-londres  Between the early 1960s and the late 1980s, a wealth of musical styles linked with successive waves of immigration transformed Paris and London into multicultural capitals. Paris-London. Music Migrations is an immersive, chronological exploration of three pivotal decades in the musical history of our two cities, showcasing the unprecedented melting pot of musical rhythms and the social and political evolutions, urban transformations and migratory flows which defined the era.   Visit the exhibition website  https://www.histoire-immigration.fr/exhibition-paris-londres  Paris-London, Music Migrations explores the close and complex relationship between migration, music, anti-racism and political activism. The exhibition demonstrates how successive generations of immigrants to these two former colonial powers used ...