The 1920s saw a revolution in technology the advent of the recording industry that created the first class of AfricanAmerican women to sing their way to fame and fortune Blues divas such as Bessie ...
Queen Latifah had us glued to our televisions Saturday night, thanks to her powerful performance as 1920s blues legend Bessie Smith in HBO's biopic Bessie. And if there was one thing that rang clearer ...
The blues run deep within August Wilson’s work — it’s in the way his characters speak, the way his stories are set, the way he addresses themes that remain relevant for years after his plays were ...
Nas and Jack White joined forces for a live, revamped hip-hop take on Memphis Jug Band’s 1928 blues song “On the Road Again” in a clip from PBS’ historical documentary project American Epic. The ...
Walking on an uphill roadway at Louisville Cemetery off Poplar Level Road, Keith Clements stopped at a nondescript spot near a big tree. “OK, this is the site,” he said. “Right here.” That’s where ...
SPENCERTOWN, N.Y. — When multi-instrumentalists Jerron Paxton and Dennis Lichtman go out into the world together, they look to the past for inspiration. Growing up on opposite coasts — Paxton in Los ...
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