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MUSICThe original music of the United States is spiritual, is gospel, jazz, ragtime, the blues, rhythm and blues, “rock and roll”, funk and rap. From these creations have grown a multi-billion dollar music industry that has influenced the world. From before this century the achievements of the originations of these musical innovations were at first ignore, then criticized and categorized, and finally accepted. Others have imitated their styles, often having more financial success than the “real thing.” But throughout this musical history, the words to their eternal music are “remember, remember, remember; our history is rich and we have prevailed.”
W.S.
The Birth Of The Blues
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 dances all...
A conversation with KRS-One
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 you...
Black Spirituals
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 the...
JANET JACKSON
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 album is people united...
MARIAN ANDERSON AND THE DAR CONTROVERSY
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 middle of a...
Public Enemy Can’t Truss It
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 Pointin' to the joint, put...