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African-American music is a broad term covering a diverse range of musical genres largely developed by African Americans and their culture. Its origins are in musical forms that developed as a result of the enslavement of African Americans prior to the American Civil War. [1] [2] It has been said that "every genre that is born from America has ...
List of singers, rappers, and musicians Louis Armstrong George Benson Chuck Berry James Brown Ray Charles Nat King Cole John Coltrane Sam Cooke Miles Davis Sammy Davis Jr. Fats Domino Dennis Edwards Duke Ellington Art Farmer Ella Fitzgerald Roberta Flack Aretha Franklin Marvin Gaye Dizzy Gillespie Buddy Guy Isaac Hayes Jimi Hendrix Gil Scott-Heron Billie Holiday John Lee Hooker Whitney Houston ...
Black conductors. James DePreist (1936–2013), one of the first African-American conductors on the world stage, is congratulated by President George W. Bush after receiving the National Medal of Arts in 2005. Black conductors are musicians of African, Caribbean, African-American ancestry and other members of the African diaspora who are ...
MARIA SHERMAN. June 6, 2024 at 12:47 PM. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Every June since the 1970s, across the United States, musicians, fans and industry professionals celebrate Black Music Month. It's an ...
June is Black Music Month (BMM) ... Kenny Gamble, the initiative, which was to highlight Black artists’ many contributions to American society and history, was cemented as a monthlong ...
Eileen Southern, Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1982. Lester Sullivan, "Composers of Color of Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: The History Behind the Music", Black Music Research Journal , vol. 8, no. 1 (1988), 51–82.
Cootie Williams. Teacho Wiltshire. Jeffery Wood. Nina Woodford. (previous page) ( next page ) Categories: African-American people by occupation. African-American music. American musicians by ethnic or national origin.
Black Music Appreciation Month is an annual celebration of African-American music in the United States. It was initiated as Black Music Month by President Jimmy Carter who, on June 7, 1979, decreed that June would be the month of Black music. [1] After the announcement by Carter, the bill never passed until 2000 when activist Dyana Williams ...