by admin | Aug 30, 2017 | MUSIC, Uncategorized
by Guadulesa As Blacks migrated in the late 1800’s from the Mississippi Delta, they carried their songs to industrial centers like St. Louis and Chicago. The blues, spirituals accompanied by staccato handclaps and the foot-produced drum sounds of plantation...
by admin | Aug 29, 2017 | MUSIC, Uncategorized
A conversation with KRS-One and Michael Lipscomb for Black History Magazine, completed in 1992 at the request of the of the Publisher, Bill Singleton, Jr. ML: It’s obvious that history is important to you. History is self-esteem to you. But it strikes me that...
by admin | Aug 29, 2017 | MUSIC
Themes In Dvorak’s New World Symphony Negro Spiritual Themes Used in Antonin Dvorak’s The New World Symphony Fifth Symphony in E Minor, Op 5 By F.R. Singleton The renowned Czech composer Antonín Dvořák recognized the significance of Negro spirituals and...
by admin | Jun 8, 2013 | MUSIC
On The Making of Rhythm Nation “Before I ever started work on Rhythm Nation, I knew that I didn’t want to make another album like Control. Control was about my life; Rhythm Nation is about what’s going on in the world around us. The theme of the...
by admin | Jun 8, 2013 | MUSIC
by Anne Tedards I would be fooling myself,” Marian Anderson once wrote, “to think that I was meant to be a fearless fighter; I was not meant to be a soprano instead of a contralto.” Nevertheless, in the spring of 1939, Anderson found herself in the...
by admin | Mar 16, 2013 | MUSIC, VIDEO
The Public Enemy’s account of the slave trade, this country’s worst crime. Bass in your face Not an eight track getting’ it good to the wood so the people Give you some a dat reactin’ to the fax that I kick and it stick And it stay around...
