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 ...

Radio Africa Group has launched Classic Soul at its streaming platform Songa Play. Visit www.songaplay.com to listen live. To ...

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.

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.

Issued on the 90th anniversary of Elvis’s birth on Jan. 8, Preston Lauterbach’s “Before Elvis: The African Americans Who Made ...

The African aesthetics in American music can be seen and ... “Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” 2021. His music was saturated with the blues, jazz, foot-stomping soul and classical music.

his distinctive trance blues style, and the historical and cultural significance of his work. Taylor shares personal stories about the power of storytelling through music, the African roots of the ...