FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) -As temperatures rise this summer, we’re turning up the volume on a different kind of heat — the cultural impact of Black music. June is African American Music ...
Early American banjo music is Black music. The banjo was created by enslaved African Americans, and according to the Smithsonian Institute, up until the 1830s, the banjo was exclusively an African ...
Duke Ellington rejected it, Charles Mingus was ambivalent about it, and Wynton Marsalis is okay with it. For many African American musicians the word “jazz” is a double-edged term, sometimes ...