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Damian Goggans' performances of "14 Etudes on The Music of Black Americans" connect audiences to the rich history of ...
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 ...
Sinners uses African-American blues and Irish folk music to illuminate the respective painful colonial pasts that the humans ...
Although Imani Perry has long chronicled Black life with an expansive eye, her writings since 2018 have covered an especially ...
Blues, Black!, which examines the influence of African American culture on modern American society. Includes scenes of Dr. Angelou discussing the function of music in Africa (used to communicate ...
Rhythm and Blues wasn ... on Music, History, and Democracy, Dr. Reiland Rabaka explores how R&B artists used their music to challenge injustice, inspire activism, and uplift communities during one of ...
This music label was founded in 1955 and ... gave me a first-hand perspective of the ways that the blues have influenced African American communities over the years. I had no idea that I would ...
Music correspondent Dave Wilson looks at why queer women have been quite visible in the history of jazz, particularly among ...
Mixing traditional Tuareg folk music with Malian electric blues and trance-inducing North African chaabi music ... in West Africa as that of the American cowboy here, tishoumaren music exudes ...
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 ...