Etran de L'Aïr ("stars of the Aïr region") are a four-piece rock band from Agadez, Niger, a West African city that has an estimated population approximately the size of Santa Fe County, situated in a ...

Listen to an imagined set list for a supernatural juke joint featuring Albert King, Outkast, Cécile McLorin Salvant and more.

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 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 ...

Sinners uses African-American blues and Irish folk music to illuminate the respective painful colonial pasts that the humans ...

“She did. I do. Our children too.” This is not to say “Black in Blues” is about music, although that’s part of it. But more to the point, it is a book of questions. “Still, I wondered ...

blues and rock-flavored music wafting in from northwestern Africa like a Saharan dust cloud. Houston will get a taste of it Oct. 3 when Niger's Etran De L'Air plays White Oak Music Hall ...

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 ...