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    Lovers Rock gives life to the joyful Black history of blues parties | Micha Frazer-Carroll

    Steve McQueen’s film captures the underground spaces that my mum’s generation carved out for themselves in the 1970s
    by Micha Frazer-Carroll Nov 24, 2020 3 minutes
    ‘My mum disputes some details of McQueen’s retelling – notably the tactile dancing.’ Micheal Ward and Amarah-Jae St Aubyn (centre) in Lovers Rock. Photograph: Parisa Taghizadeh/BBC/McQueen Limited

    At the halfway mark of , the new Steve McQueen film set at a blues party in 1980, at least a hundred partygoers calmly sing an a capella song for five minutes straight. It is hypnotising and, like other moments in McQueen’s film series, which centres around British Caribbean communities in the 1960s to the 1980s, time feels momentarily like it has beenstretched. Every person in that jam-packed room patiently sings the slow song from start to finish, and everyone knows the words: “But I’ve got no time to

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