Listening Project
Conversation between mother and daughter, Jan and Ama, about their dreadlocks, their relationship and their identity.
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Type
sound
Duration
00:40:20
Shelf mark
C1500/0559
Recording date
2013-11-4
Is part of (Collection)
The Listening Project
Recording locations
BBC Broadcasting House, London
Interviewees
McKenley, Jan , 1955- (female, civil servant), McKenley-Ballantyne, Ama , 1983- (female, primary school teacher)
Producers
BBC Radio 4
Recordist
Catt, Georgia
Abstract
Jan and Ama talk about their dreadlocks - why they have them, what it says about them, their relationship and their identity. For Jan they are about celebrating her blackness - part of her identity and the black is beautiful culture which she still feels very much part of. For Ama they are just how she looks. Ama talks about disliking people who make judgements about her based on her dreadlocks and blackness. They talk about how they describe themselves - Ama says for her, black doesn't come into it. She is a female Londoner - woman has, she feels, replaced black as the new fight.
Description
The Listening Project conversations collectively form a picture of our lives and relationships today. Recordings were made by BBC producers of people sharing an intimate conversation, lasting up to an hour and on a topic of the speakers' choice.
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