early African American music would become a unifying and driving force among America's slaves. Spirituals, as many of these songs came to be called, expressed faith in God, helped make work more ...

Jazz blends elements from varied traditions, including African and African American, religious ... so do campaigns to censor this "devil's music." Early detractors like Thomas Edison, inventor ...

Much of bluegrass comes from African-American music and British/Irish ... though they are separate genres. Zydeco music came to be in the early 20th century in the southwest area of Louisiana ...

We have a ton of excellent early music in Seattle. Learn how digging into music’s ancient past can expand our understanding ...

Over roughly two decades, Harlem became home to Black artists, musicians, authors and socialites of all sexual stripes. In a ...

The Abyssinian Congregational Church located in Portland, Maine was an early African American cultural center ... and funk ...

The Staple Singers, whose early 1960s protest soul had ... put down the greatest Blaxploitation score (music and movies aimed at attracting African-American audiences) with his solo album Superfly.

Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA by Theresa Runstedtler. Copyright © 2024.

National Museum of African-American Music - Nashville ... Stax Museum of American Soul Music - Memphis, Tenn. Since the early ...

In this first programme, we explore Bonds' early life in 1920s Chicago, at the time of a major literary and artistic Renaissance. In a house filled with music, with her mother Estella at its head, she ...

Director Tazewell Thompson has taken an a capella musical he created in 2019 about the original Fisk Jubilee Singers and ...

Oprah Winfrey was an early supporter of the National Museum of African American History and Culture ... segregation and Civil Rights as well as music, sports and entertainment.