Some Nation writers went out of their way to avoid discussing race in their critiques of the new music, even as loaded ...
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 ...
Alfredo Rodriguez will perform at the University of Georgia’s Ramsey Concert Hall on Wednesday, Jan. 15 at 7:30 p.m. It will ...
The chapter “Our Mainstream Jazz” describes how, by 1970, jazz gained a modernist, formalized sensibility after the influence ...
The free concert is based on the award-winning documentary The Quilt: A Living History of African American Music.
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 ...
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.