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In 2013, no African-American musician had a Billboard Hot 100 number one, the first year in which there was not a number-one record by an African-American in the chart's 55-year history. [80] J. Cole , Beyonce , Jay Z , and half-Canadian Drake , were all top-selling music artists this year, but none made it to the Billboard Hot 100 's number ...
Along with disco, funk was one of the most popular genres of music in the 1970s. Primarily an African-American genre, it was characterized by the heavy use of bass and "wah-wah" pedals. Rhythm was emphasized over melody. Artists such as James Brown, The Meters, Parliament-Funkadelic and Sly and the Family Stone pioneered the genre.
Soul music dominated the U.S. African-American music charts in the 1960s, and many recordings crossed over into the pop charts in the U.S. Otis Redding was a huge success at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. [11] The genre also became highly popular in the UK, where many leading acts toured in the late 1960s.
The African American traditions of signifyin', the dozens, and jazz poetry all influence hip-hop music, as well as the call and response patterns of African and African American religious ceremonies. Early popular radio disc jockeys of the Black-appeal radio period broke into broadcast announcing by using these techniques under the jive talk of ...
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 Charts (American group) The Chi-Lites; Chic (band) Children of the Corn (group) The Chords (American band) The Clark Sisters; Classic Example; The Cleftones; The Coasters; Coming of Age (group) Commissioned (gospel group) Commodores; The Cool Kids; Cotton Blossom Singers; Crime Mob; Crucial Conflict; The Crystals; The Cues
By the mid-1950s, rhythm and blues was transitioning from its blues and big band-based jazz origins toward the musical forms that would be known more broadly as rock music. [2] [nb 2] This trend was expedited by the exposure of young white listeners and musicians to African-American music played by ambitious disc jockeys on radio stations in the Northern United States. [2]
Hip hop music, developed in the South Bronx in the early 1970s, has long been tied to social injustice in the United States, particularly that of the African American experience. Hip hop artists have spoken out in their lyrics against perceived social injustices such as police brutality , poverty , mass incarceration , and the war on drugs .