It has roots deeply embedded in the Black experience. Blues has long been a powerful expression of the struggles, joys and ...

In honour of Black History Month, CBC Music presents 12 amazing, unsung music ... Smith was the ultimate blues trailblazer: in 1920 she became the first African-American to make a vocal blues ...

Then, one day about five years ago, Malley stumbled across some research that traced the roots of American blues music back to West African Muslim slaves. His discovery led Malley to imagine a ...

White male blues singers have left a mark on the music world, blending their unique experiences with the soulful essence of blues. Many music lovers wonder about the impact and contributions of ...

asked about the spate of new scholarship on the subject of Islam and African Americans. "You can hear (influences of Islam) in even the earliest days of American blues music. What you've gotten ...

In the 1920s, a great mass of white Americans began doing a West African ... music without boundaries, the complex rhythm grooves reflect the outer galaxy of the song “Ob-La-Di,” where all ...

2 of 6 — Three of the six leaders of African-American organizations who met with ... Not Just The Movement's Background Singers Former journalist Lynne Olson, who wrote Freedom's Daughters ...

Names like Eartha White and Sallye Mathis are known to people familiar with Jacksonville history, pioneering African-American ... of blues and jazz into world-renowned music genres.