However marginal Kanneh-Mason’s Britishness may be, it is an identity that confers her more than a modicum of privilege elsewhere and it is rather unfortunate that she does not probe this contradiction further. There is no mention, for instance, of the criticism her family has received in Antigua where their status as state-appointed cultural ambassadors is perceived to have come at the expense of local calypso artistes whose musical contributions are more entrenched in Antiguan society.