PAULINE BLACK: A2-TONE STORY

PAULINE BLACK: A2-TONE STORY
Jane Mingay | UK 2024 | 92' | English OF

Pauline Black, lead singer of the hit ska band "The Selecter" (labelmates of Madness, the Specials and several more on 2 Tone Records, the most influential record label for the 2nd wave of ska), tells her extraordinary life story: Born in the 1950s to a Jewish mother and a Nigerian father and adopted by a white working-class family in Essex, it was only in the Two Tone scene in Coventry that she developed her own identity - and played a key role in shaping the music and appearance of "The Selecter".

This is also the story of the ethnically diverse British working class since Thatcher, the revitalization of a rousing sound that, borne by a self-confident moral stance, becomes a kind of social reportage, lived anti-racism and anti-sexism. With Arthur 'Gaps' Hendrickson (The Selecter ), Don Letts, Rhoda Dakar (The Bodysnatchers, The Special AKA), Lynval Golding (The Specials), Mykaell Riley (Steel Pulse), Jools Holland (Squeeze), Skin (Skunk Anansie), Damon Albarn (Blur), and Sonia Boyce.

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