The National Museum of African American Music, or NMAAM, is the only museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating the many ...

It comprises over 61 works by 34 modern and contemporary artists who showcase the convergence of these genres through a ...

The great folksong revival of the 1940s through 1960s made rural white and African American artists and their music favorites of audiences everywhere. While key figures associated with the American ...

Despite the clear impact of African American musical heritage on American popular music, and the wide array of talented and popular African American musical artists, African American musicians and ...

Delphia Bradley came to Idaho Falls last December to escape abuse, harassment and racism. Now she’s starting a new venture in ...

Even former President Jimmy Carter dedicated a month to African American music appreciation beginning in 1979. With the deep influence of classic artists such as Louis Armstrong, Michael Jackson ...

The Harlem Renaissance had already ignited a cultural awakening in America, fostering a new wave of African American literature, music, and art. Artists such as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston ...

"art" music as a response to colonialism, and the impact of African music on the earliest forms of African American music. Two 90-minute lectures. A comparative approach to African political systems.

The American musical art form jazz emerges ... including African and African American, religious, brass band, and blues styles. The improvisational music that results has a syncopated rhythm ...

The city of Nashville embodies more than just country music, and nowhere is this more apparent than at the National Museum of African American Music. Opened in 2021, the museum aims to educate ...