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 ...

The National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) is set to hold its inaugural awards gala on Saturday, Oct. 5, in ...

Tetrarch guitarist Diamond Rowe has just become the first African American woman in heavy music to have her own signature ...

Many Black artists were denied ‘compensation, control and credit for their creations,’ says legal scholar Kevin Greene.

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 ...

Seattle Opera's "Jubilee" tells the story of early members of Fisk University's Jubilee Singers, who spread their influential music around the world.

As Grammy voting begins, the Recording Academy has added more than 3,000 female members in five years, and its diversity is ...

Both Aqua and the Ebony Hillbillies revive the music of people who have been marginalized — Eastern European Jews and African-Americans. What’s more, by drawing on generations of history ...

You can hardly look at the mimicking of African-American manners, mores, maybe music, maybe dance, and see that these people are being cast as somehow less than the people who are portraying them.

The city of Nashville embodies more than just country music, and nowhere is this more apparent than at the National Museum of African American Music. Opened in 2021, the museum aims to educate ...

Goines taught music and directed the choir at the Shenandoah Valley ... A free-will offering will be collected during the ...

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 ...