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Windrush generation
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The Caribbean migrants who came to Britain between the Empire Windrush's 1948 arrival and the early 1960s — and who carried Jamaican music with them. Their front rooms hosted the first blues dances, their children built the British sound systems, and every UK genre in this archive from lovers rock to jungle stands on that migration.
The ship Almanzora arrived in Britain roughly six months before the Empire Windrush's celebrated 1948 voyage, carrying an estimated 150 Jamaican passengers against the Windrush's approximately 420, meaning the Windrush's status as the symbolic starting point for Caribbean migration to Britain is a matter of received cultural memory rather than strict chronological priority.
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- histories of black Britain; Bass Culture.
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