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The earliest known, full-length opera composed by a Black American, “Morgiane,” will premiere this week in Washington, DC, Maryland and New York more than century after it was completed.
“During Black Music Month, we celebrate the Black artists and creatives whose work has so often been a tidal wave of change — not only by defining the American songbook and culture but also by ...
American blues musician Aaron ‘T-Bone’ Walker (1910 – 1975), UK, 3rd March 1965. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) – Credit: Photo Evening Standard / Getty Images
African-American music is a broad term covering a diverse range of musical genres largely developed by African Americans and their culture.Its origins are in musical forms that developed as a result of the enslavement of African Americans prior to the American Civil War.
Black Music Month became African American Music Appreciation Month in 2009 by a proclamation from President Barack Obama. [4] In his 2016 proclamation, Obama noted that African-American music and musicians have helped the country "to dance, to express our faith through song, to march against injustice, and to defend our country's enduring ...
The history and diversity of Black music in North Carolina. Hip-hop was birthed in the Bronx, New York, a half-century ago. Its foundation — DJing, rapping, break dancing and graffiti ...
The Indiana University Archives of African American Music and Culture (AAAMC), established in 1991, is a material repository covering a range of African American musical idioms and cultural expressions from the post-World War II era. The collections highlight popular, religious, and classical music, with genres ranging from blues and gospel to ...
The late, great Donny Hathaway once said in a 1973 Sun-Reporter interview that “American music is Black music.” When asked... View Article The post Museum dedicated to Black American music ...