A Smithsonian curator reflects back on the artistic legend, a "Renaissance man" with 28 Grammys to his name, who died Sunday ...

"It's the music I've always listened to ... Now I'm the ‘first African-American country singer.′ That's about the only thing that's changed," he told The Dallas Morning News in 1992.

Unraveling the mystery of a pioneering American painter’s missing work Imagine discovering that a painting on your wall is a long, lost masterpiece. In two recent cases, the story centers on ...

"Bill Monroe, often called the father of Bluegrass music ... roamed the country sporting corked faces and grotesque "darky" dialects. In 1865, however, a small group of African-American ...

The great folksong revival of the 1940s through 1960s made rural white and African American artists and their music favorites of audiences everywhere. While key figures associated with the American ...

Describing the African-American influence on American music in all of its glory an d variety is an intimidating—if not impossible—task. African American influences are so fundamental to American music ...

African-American country singer Charley Pride (pictured), whose ... was not the first Black artist to make important contributions to country music, but he was a trailblazer who emerged during ...

In February, the singer won the first-ever Grammy for African music performance, for her sultry, gorgeously sung single “Water,” a defining track of the African music wave that’s reshaped ...

But no one who saw the South African ... country and continent already know — African music is the future, and Tyla is a genre-fluent ambassador. “I really want people to listen to the artists ...

A kind of hallmark of non-American country music was these artists were kind of working ... cryptically named YouTube video that just said African country music. And it was the music video for ...

Who knows if our university is ready to prioritize Black desires for well-being on and off our campus and around the country ... and artists whose work enriches understanding of how African Americans ...

The rousing overture has motifs taken from African American spirituals ... their voices and shared their music. By sharing the story of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, and the beauty and meaning ...