The historical significance of Black popular music in American culture is powerful. Even former President Jimmy Carter dedicated a month to African American music appreciation beginning in 1979.

After World War II, many African American painters, musicians, and intellectuals flocked to Paris, seeking a sense of freedom that they couldn't find in the United States at the time. Barois De Caevel ...

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 ...

Historically, people in the African Diaspora were treated by European painters as props or scenery rather than as subjects, so portraits of African American musicians, much like other markers of ...

While the title of Preston Lauterbach's book, “Before Elvis — the African American Musicians Who Made the King” (Hachette Book Group, $15.99) might be deemed provocative, the author offers ...

By the early 1970s, WCHB’s founders realized that the station could do more for jazz by fully committing to the genre. So, in ...

Both free and enslaved African American people in antebellum America composed and performed music in a wide variety of styles. Like their white counterparts, they listened to and performed the ...

A Fort Worth music festival will celebrate the contributions of African Americans in early American folk music. The Fort Worth African American Roots Music Festival features 13 folk musicians ...

From the late 1800s through the 1970s, Central Avenue in Tampa was bustling with Black culture and eventually became known as the Harlem of the South. Central Avenue between Ybor City and downtown ...