The music of African Americans is one of the most poetic and inescapable ... TN Smithsonian American Art Museum Rhythmic Blues National Museum of African American History and Culture Costume worn by ...

African Americans & the Quest for Civil Rights ... Guralnick, Peter. (1986). Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm & Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom. New York: Harper & Row. Reiland Rabaka, Civil Rights ...

Combined with the African rhythms, these musical styles were the foundation of blues. The Delta blues, first recorded in the 1920s, was one of the earliest types of blues music and originated in ...

Over the last 30 years one of the very cool trends in the international music scene is the growing popularity of West African “desert blues”: music from the Sahel region that draws on some of the same ...

The blues is a style of music created by African Americans at the end of the 19th Century. It developed out of folk music, spiritual songs and work songs. The blues would have been originally ...

creating many musical innovations Muddy Waters was a huge influence in turning the music of the Mississippi Delta into modern-style electric blues In 1920 Mamie Smith became the first African ...

Each of the museum's galleries focuses on how African American music changed ... while the "Crossroads" gallery showcases the emergence of blues music. The "A Love Supreme" gallery teaches ...