During a recording career that spanned nearly half a century, Johnnie Taylor (1934-1999) covered more genres of African-American music than any…
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Afro Blue Impressions · John Coltrane
James Brown, Stokely Carmichael,and “Acceptable”Forms of Black PowerProtest (from Black Diaspora Review – Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies – Indiana University, Bloomington)
James West ABSTRACT This paper argues that the amorphous nature of Black Power as a slogan or concept can be…
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Strictly Second Line: Funk, Jazz, and the New Orleans Beat (from Ethno Musicology Review)
Ethnomusicology ReviewVolume 18 (2013) By Benjamin Doleac Abstract: In 1976, filmmaker Maurice Martinez asked Mardi Gras Indian Chief Jake Millon to…
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Kpelle proverb
If you built a town and there’s no drummer in it, then it’s not a town. If you built a…
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Celebrating the Rich, Creamy Soulfulness of Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ (from Radioscope-Oldschool)
*On Aug. 28, 1973, Marvin Gaye released “Let’s Get It On,” his 13th studio album and the most commercially successful of his career. It…
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“To Broken Beat, what Tony Allen was to Afrobeat”: a brief history of Kaidi Tatham (from Stamp The Wax)
BY ROSIE CAIN JUNE 11, 2020 Musician, multi-instrumentalist and producer Kaidi Tatham truly defined a movement; the soulful, syncopated beats we’ve come to term…
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Derrick Morgan, Ernest Ranglin & Prince Buster explains what is ska
110 Years: When We Fight We Win (from The Crisis – NAACP)
July 30, 2019 By Crisis Magazine Staff The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was created after…
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Hot Buttered Soul: The Role of Foodways and Music-making in Building and Sustaining African American Communities (Indiana University)
A lecture and panel discussion exploring the intersections between sacred and secular African American music genres (funk, soul and gospel,…
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Good vibrations: how Bandcamp became the heroes of streaming (The Guardian)
They waive their fees, raise cash for Juneteenth and champion everything from vaporwave to eco-grime. Founder Ethan Diamond explains how…
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Duke Ellington’s melodies carried his message of social justice (article from The Conversation)
Authors:Michelle R. ScottAssociate Professor of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore CountyEarl BrooksAssistant Professor of English, University of Maryland, Baltimore County…
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Lift Every Voice: Marian Anderson, Florence B. Price And The Sound Of Black Sisterhood
by ALISHA LOLA JONES Assistant Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology · INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON “When will we listen to black women?”…
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African American Music – An Introduction
Edited by Mellonee V. Burnim, Portia K. Maultsby Book Description American Music: An Introduction, Second Edition is a collection of seventeen…
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BLM’S #WHATMATTERS2020
-What “Jazz” means to me- by Max Roach (excerpt)
CAPTO · SEARCHING — Que Beleza 7.6.20
I’m so honored that Capto (who knows, knows) made this selecta for Backflip.It makes me tune in.In this Planet, for…
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Physical vs virtual space place
You know, you know the difference between physical space and the virtual one? Today, Marilena came in my physical space…
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NO JUSTICE NO PEACE
For George Floyd and for All the Black People murdered by police supremacistsFor all the HumankindNO JUSTICE NO PEACENever stop…
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Bobby Digital was music titan (from Jamaican Observer)
source: article by jamaican observer
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Verzuz Presents: Bounty Killer vs Beenie Man
🇯🇲 🔥 ♥️ LEGENDARY MUSICAL CULTURE NITE ♥️ 🔥 🇯🇲 RESPECT & LOVE
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IMR presents Expansions – Backflip Records (13 hours w/ 13 record stores)
“This set was recorded for our event IMR Presents Expansions – 13 hours with 13 record shops. For this occasion,…
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