Although Imani Perry has long chronicled Black life with an expansive eye, her writings since 2018 have covered an especially broad array of subjects. That year, she published a b ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...