The National Museum of African American Music, or NMAAM, is the only museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating the many ...

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 legendary American musician Quincy Jones, a revolutionary producer who changed African American music, died at the age of ...

itinerant minstrel shows – white professional musicians, dressed in blackface, who danced and performed songs that the audiences believed imitated African-American music and simultaneously ...

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 ...

As the African-American singer and political activist Paul Robeson told Hasia Diner, a historian of American Jewry, responding to a question about why he performs Yiddish music like “Eli ...

However, African American culture helped shape country music. When thinking of country music, Johnny Cash of Kingsland, Ark., ...

The National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) is set to hold its inaugural awards gala on Saturday, Oct. 5, in downtown Nashville. The event, slated to run from 6 to 8 p.m., will honor ...

Here, in the 1890s, African-American musicians create a new music out of these ingredients by mixing in ragtime syncopations and the soulful feeling of the blues. Episode 2: The Gift As 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 ...

April Eaton sits down with Dion Brown. President and CEO of the National Museum of African American Music, and Noelle Taylor, ...