The first framework is African-American, with the multiplication of works of jazz that has mobilized the Spanish musical universe since the mid-fifties. The second is European, with the long Western tradition of Spanish orientalism that flourished in the XIXth century. The central purpose will ...
both jazz and blues were created and developed by African American. Especially the Jazz that derived from folk music deeply changed people’s aesthetic ideas toward music. At the same time, it further probes into the trend and thread of the modern music development. Thus it is of practical si...
Music is a key element of African-American culture. During slavery, many blacks sang Negro spirituals and call-and-answer songs while working on the fields. They sang songs such as “Wade in the Water” and “Michael Row the Boat Ashore,” which people continue to sing today. During the ...
“call and response of the black church, the joy and pain of the blues, the jive talk and slang of the hipsters and jazz musicians, the boasting of street talk, the sidesplitting humor of comedians, and the articulateness of black activists.” All of these African American oral traditions,...
Thomas Wright “Fats” Waller was an important jazz piano player during the Harlem Renaissance, who contributed to the evolution of a new and uniquely American style of music called Jazz. Some of the most famous musicians originated from jazz, especially people from Harlem, New York. Waller gain...
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In 1960, West worked with Bell Labs colleague Gerhard Sessler to develop an inexpensive, sensitive, miniature microphone element. In 1962, they completed the development on the electret condenser microphone. Six years later, the electret mic was in mass production. In 2021, electret mics are ubiqu...
a site now known asFort Monroe National Monument. This landing inaugurated 246 years of racialized United States slavery and a continuing fight for equality. While Fort Monroe shares and preserves this significant moment of American history, the legacy of the past 400 years reverberates far beyond...
The Symbol of the Unconquered (1920) Perhaps the boldest film of the early African-American cinema was this film by Oscar Micheaux, that dared to confront the Ku Klux Klan. Previously unavailable on DVD, this edition will be mastered in HD from a 35mm film element preserved by the Museum ...
But the Baptists had an additional feature which made them the most widespread denomination in the southern US. This church, as American historian JP Jackson wrote in the Journal of Negro History, "is the religious organisation to which the underprivileged classes, more so than to any other den...