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The African American Artists Who Moved To Paris During The Jazz Age
In the roaring twenties, the world buzzed with jazz rhythms and a spirit of liberation. It was an era when African American artists found their creative voices and sought new horizons beyond the ...
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Early Jazz
The American musical art form jazz emerges in New Orleans around the advent of the 20th century. Jazz blends elements from varied traditions, including African and African American, religious ...
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Keeping jazz alive in the Queen City
One of the most iconic locations in Buffalo is a modest, two-story brick building found on the Michigan Street African ...
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Sacred Blue: Jazz Goes To Church In the 1960s
a new creative path to explore in jazz. Historian Michael McGerr and Indiana University African-American Choral Ensemble director Keith McCutchen join Night Lights this Easter week for a look at ...
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Sunday performance at San Antonio's San Fernando Cathedral celebrates African American music
The free concert is based on the award-winning documentary The Quilt: A Living History of African American Music.
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More than 60 years later, Langston Hughes’ ‘Black Nativity’ is still a pillar of African American theater
They wanted to place African American life in all corners of existence ... What Hughes developed was less like a simple, straightforward narrative and more like jazz, with improvisation at its center.