Shannon Sanders, an African-American South Nashville native and award-winning BMI executive director of creative, reflects on ...

so portraits of African American musicians, much like other markers of status that were long denied to people of color in European-controlled territories, serve as a cultural acknowledgment of their ...

Despite the clear impact of African American musical heritage on American popular music, and the wide array of talented and popular African American musical artists, African American musicians and ...

In the book, Lauterbach examines the Black artists who laid the foundations for rock ‘n’ roll and influenced ... Hailed by ...

Enslaved Africans seeking to reconnect with their lost cultural traditions brought African concepts to instruments in the ...

Black American music is music of the spirit, a profound diversity of lessons to be enjoyed. Never duplicated but often imitated, its drumbeats are heartbeats of the inner person that ignites ...