Explore how 9 influential Black musicians including Louis Armstrong, Michael Jackson, and Prince changed music history ...

The African oral tradition of work chanting ... Meanwhile, the blues and the electric guitar would pave the way for Black ...

Marchers, musicians and dancers celebrated along a route in southeastern Lancaster city on Saturday, part of the Central ...

“The first recordings of jazz by African American musicians occurred in New York in 1916 in Los Angeles in 1922. Soon jazz spread into popular culture. Religious music moved into the cities and new ...

Lauterbach (The Chitlin’ Circuit) spotlights innovative Black musicians who influenced a young Elvis in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Among them were Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup, who wrote and ...

An Enduring Legacy” exhibit, documentary screening and live musical performance will take place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, May 31, at the Cathedral 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 ...

Clarksdale didn't just provide history and blues for director and writer Ryan Coogler's hit movie about art, Jim Crow and ...

This historically-significant site was founded in 1917 when the all-white musicians union, Local 43, refused to include African American musicians in the union. A separate union, Buffalo Local 533 ...