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Jun 19, 2024 · Black Forum opened its account with an album of a speech from the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, Why I Oppose The War In Vietnam, recorded in April 1967 at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta...
- Ian Mccann
Jun 25, 2024 · Motown, recording company founded by Berry Gordy, Jr., in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., in 1959 that became one of the most successful Black-owned businesses and one of the most influential independent record companies in American history.
3 days ago · His debut album, “Reasonable Doubt” (1996), sold over 1 million copies and was released by Roc-A-Fella Records, a New York City-based record label that Jay-Z founded with two of his friends ...
3 days ago · 19th century. William Sidney Mount painted scenes of black and white American musicians. This 1856 painting depicts an African-American banjo player. The influence of African Americans on mainstream American music began in the 19th century with the advent of blackface minstrelsy.
Jul 1, 2024 · The term was coined by Jerry Wexler in 1947, when he was editing the charts at the trade journal Billboard and found that the record companies issuing Black popular music considered the chart names then in use (Harlem Hit Parade, Sepia, Race) to be demeaning.
- Ed Ward
Jul 1, 2024 · The first blues recordings were made in the 1920s by Black women, beginning with Mamie Smith. Her version of American composer and pianist Perry Bradford’s “Crazy Blues” in 1920 was so successful that the General Phonograph Company’s OKeh label launched a series called “Original Race Records.”
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5 days ago · Freed was the first radio disc jockey and concert producer who frequently played and promoted rock and roll, including songs by black artists that were considered to be R&B. Various recordings that date back to the 1940s have been named as the first rock and roll record, or at least as precursors of the music.
