This post was updated May 22 at 9:43 p.m. Community and tradition inspire the performers of the Old-Time String Band and African American Music Ensemble. Each class of musical performers has shared a ...

In the years after Emancipation, a new sound emerged among formerly enslaved African-American communities working on cotton plantations in the Deep South. An amalgamation of field hollers, church ...

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Your browser does not support the audio element. On the islands off the coast of Georgia, the Gullah Geechee culture of ex-slaves was isolated from the rest of the ...

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His life in music was a struggle against narrow definitions - of ‘race’, instrumental appropriateness and musical genre.