Fear of a black key?… Don't be afraid. Adding flats and sharps to your music will give it a new lease of life.

Many notes inform “In the Wake,” including one from “The Condition of Black Life Is One of Mourning,” Claudia Rankine’s 2015 essay: “Though the white ... no playing music, no sudden ...

The study notes the move ... Myth of Country Music & White America” — points out the long gap between Charley Pride’s 1970s heyday as country’s only Black star and Darius Rucker‘s ...

Raeghan Buchanan has been listening to punk music since she was a kid. She began playing in bands in her early 20s, but sometimes felt alienated as a Black artist in the mostly white punk scene.

it held that Black artists were confined to undervalued music categories with limited opportunities for growth, financial freedom and creativity. Discriminatory barriers meant that white artists ...

Also, Black youth must be introduced to the arts early to keep pace with their white peers ... inspired by daughter's cancer fight Music Notes: June concerts include Buckeye Country Superfest ...

The music video offsets black-and-white footage of 20th-century protests with full-color clips of The Roots performing in the studio. Like many freedom songs of the era, it's designed to be easily ...

Black American music ... elements of African American music were the sounds of enslaved Africans; cries, hollers, call and response, additive rhythms, bent notes, hand-clapping, stomps and ...