We spoke with the scholar about Black in Blues, a poetic exploration of the relationship between the color blue and Black ...

Listen to an imagined set list for a supernatural juke joint featuring Albert King, Outkast, Cécile McLorin Salvant and more.

Director Ryan Coogler and composer Ludwig Göransson met in film school at USC. Their latest collaboration, an explosive mix ...

"Sinners" mixes gangsters, vampires and the blues for an exciting horror show. But for director Ryan Coogler, it also became ...

The Oscar winning costume designer tells Harper's Bazaar that collaborating on Ryan Coogler's vampire epic felt like working ...

A look at the work of Big Bill Broonzy and how blues artists like him were the first wave of alternative music, changing the ...

Before long, black record-buyers were leaving classic blues behind and moving on to the soul music of Motown and the funk of James Brown. A group of white baby boomers took over as the blues ...

In a new podcast from Rural Remix, reporter Lane Wendell Fischer explores the origins and evolution of country music.

And even though Göransson is a white Swede ... despite his background — growing up in Linköping, Sweden, in the 1980s — Göransson was practically baptized in American blues music.

The other was the man who introduced him to blues music, his Uncle ... biracial but “passing” as white. “This film brought me closer to my family and my family history,” said Steinfeld, whose ...

The black blues ... facile cynicism: “Blues wasn’t forced on us like religion,” Smoke says. “It’s the magic that we do.” The film’s opening narration about “music so true, it ...