Public Library UK Vol. I, After Kenneth Little, 2024

by Richard Hylton

Broadcast on Resonance FM

Friday 30 May, 8:00pm - 9:00pm (British Summer Time, 3-4 PM EST) 

A participatory spoken-word work about immigration and its legacies in Britain. Thirty-seven volunteers read consecutive excerpts from the
American sociologist Leonard Bloom’s introduction to the 1972 edition of Kenneth Little’s 'Negroes in Britain: A Study of Racial Relations in
English Society'. With the practice of anthropological field recordings in mind, this work considers not histories of societies and cultures of
faraway people and faraway lands, but instead those closer to home. For more information visit richardhylton.co.uk. [Repeats Monday 10am.]

Information

Public Library UK Vol. I After Kenneth Little is a limited-edition work, produced as two 140g vinyl LPs presented in an illustrated gatefold design.

Devised, Produced and Recorded: Richard Hylton

Sound editing: Oliver Schmidt

Photoshop images: Reuben Thurnhill

Design: Urjuan Toosy

Liner notes:  Public Library—Some Considerations by Eddie Chambers
Sonic Fictions of Unsettlement by Salomé Voegelin.

To buy: Public Library UK Vol I, After Kenneth Little, 2024 is available to purchase online from publiclibrary.uk for 55 GBP (P&P included for UK),  
International shipping fees apply. For more information please contact: public [​at​] publiclibrary.uk.

The album’s pressing was made possible through a Research Culture Award from SOAS. Photograph After Kenneth Little, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1948, 2018. © Richard Hylton.
Photograph: Steve White.