By deploying exceptional musicality, a deep understanding of African American Christianity, and an embrace of commercialism, the three singers have conserved and reworked musical elements derived from an African American heritage into a powerful performance rhetoric. By using musical mastery, they have ...
When theEmancipation Proclamationwas signed in 1863, more than 90% of the African American population lived in the American South, making up most of the population in three Southern states, namelyLouisiana,South Carolina, andMississippi. This began to change over the next decade; by 1880, migrati...
On September 12,1992, she joined several other astronauts on the Endeavour, becoming the first African-American woman in space. Born in Decatur, Alabama in 1956 and raised mostly in Chicago, Jemison holds many awards and degrees, As a child, Jemison spent a lot of time in her school ...
根据上文“This Great Migration was the first time in American history that the lowest caste (种姓) people signaled that they had options for themselves and were willing to take them. (这次大迁徙是美国历史上第一次最低种姓的人表示他们有自己的选择,并愿意接受这些选择)”以及后文“Think about thos...
like a cross between Neil Diamond and Nick Drake, which might be good if he captured the best facets of those two singers voices, but he tends to mine the weaker facets instead: breathy delivery in a somewhat monotone baritone. The sparse horn and string arrangements onSongs of Leonard ...
Harris and the 173rd Airborne Brigade were ambushed in Vietnam. Sadly, 48 American soldiers lost their lives that day. However, medic Lawrence Joel, the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor since the Spanish-American War, was honored for saving several lives during that battle...
Charles Seeger, one of North America’s most influential musicologists of the twentieth century and father of Pete Seeger, put the importance of folk music for the American people as follows: “The musical soul of America is in its folk music, not in its academic music; and only in its ...
The Dean turned down the Supreme Commander’s offer, saying that this would be paid for by Britons as an appreciation of the American sacrifice during our common struggle. A roll of honour lists the names of the 28,000 Americans who gave their lives while stationed from Great Britain. Perhap...
Harry Belafonte crossed racial barriers as a singer and actor and became the first African American to win an Emmy. Born in New York City to Jamaican parents, Belafonte's first hit was "Matilda," followed by "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)." He has spent his career impacting the world ...
Shifting demographics in the 1910s and 1920s, most notably the migration of thousands of African Americans from the rural South to the urban centres of the North, opened economic and leisure possibilities that provided new spaces to define black modernity and its role in shaping American identity...