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 ...

The Jim Irsay Collection will loan several items to the acclaimed Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle for its upcoming exhibit – "Never Turn Back: Echoes of African American Music" – opening May 2025.

“The blues is born out of the a cappella music of Africa and the music that blacks created as slaves, which manifested as field hollers, mixed together with the European folk music they learned ...

The influence of African music is widespread. Elements can be heard in blues, gospel, jazz and Latin American music due to the historic movement of African slaves to the Americas. Millions of ...

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 ...

A new concert series called “Meet You at the Cross Roads” brings together Somali blues and Black soul music in a ...

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 ...

Historically, people in the African Diaspora were treated by European painters as props or scenery rather than as subjects, so portraits of African American musicians, much like other markers of ...