Story of Black British music writ large in first exhibition at V&A East

Museum says The Music is Black is part of a push to reposition scene as central to UK’s cultural history Jacqueline Springer is standing in the middle of the V&A’s new exhibition space looking wistfully at a pair of drainpipe trousers, a tailored suit jacket and a porkpie hat, which create the unmistakable silhouette of Pauline Black , lead singer of the 2 Tone group the Selector. Springer is the curator of the V&A East’s inaugural exhibition, The Music is Black, a landmark survey of Bla