We spoke to Robert Randolph, The Teskey brothers, Taj Farrant and , Kanchan Daniel, about the past and future of blues.

Florida’s Got the Blues,” is a traveling exhibit that examines the influence the blues had on the music community, the ...

The Blues Trail was created nearly two decades ago with markers located at significant places that helped shape the genre.

Imani Perry finds room to improvise, to think on the page in what feels like real time. Her work walks a line between ethnography and history.

The music of African Americans is one of the most poetic and inescapable ... Memphis, TN Smithsonian American Art Museum Rhythmic Blues National Museum of African American History and Culture Costume ...

Black American music is music of the spirit, a profound diversity of lessons to be enjoyed. Never duplicated but often imitated, its drumbeats are heartbeats of the inner person that ignites ...

Enslaved Africans seeking to reconnect with their lost cultural traditions brought African ... shaped American music and led to the creation of genres such as gospel, blues, jazz, rhythm and ...