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Maze featuring Frankie Beverly
The LOUD Minority Frank Foster
Antonio Neves A Pegada Agora É Essa
From samba and bossa nova through to baile funk, with carioca…
Straight Up Exit 9
Noah Slee Radar Remixes
Noah Slee is a deep soul, I love & respect so…
The Parrish Smile
“ability required practice. knowledge required desire. feeling required life experience.” …still…
Johnnie Taylor (from Stax Records)
During a recording career that spanned nearly half a century, Johnnie Taylor…
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…
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…
Kpelle proverb
If you built a town and there’s no drummer in it,…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
Good vibrations: how Bandcamp became the heroes of streaming (The Guardian)
They waive their fees, raise cash for Juneteenth and champion everything…
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…
Lift Every Voice: Marian Anderson, Florence B. Price And The Sound Of Black Sisterhood
by ALISHA LOLA JONES Assistant Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology · INDIANA…
African American Music – An Introduction
Edited by Mellonee V. Burnim, Portia K. Maultsby Book Description American…
