The former Sounds of Blackness lead singer gets one of Presley’s most iconic numbers on the soundtrack. (Mae Boren Axton and Tommy Durden co-wrote and Elvis had a very rare songwriting credit on this, too.) Alton Mason: “Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child” Mason is dubbed when ...
Music Blackness and the Writing of Sound in Modernity UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIASANTA CRUZ David Marriott DeCristoJeramyin Modernity is a critique of the tenants of the Western sonic avant-garde through black music. I engage African diasporic music as a critical site where the modernist distinction ...
In another meaning of “soul,” we could also say that Auto-Tune is the sound of blackness today, at least in its most cutting-edge forms, like trap and future-leaning R&B. Finally, people have claimed that Auto-Tune irrevocably dates recordings, thereby eliminating their chances for ...
The music of the 1960s and 70s mirrored the socio-political landscape. Songs like James Brown’s “Say It Loud (I'm Black And Proud)” in 1969 put Black pride at the forefront. Meanwhile, Marvin Gaye’s socio-political albumWhat’s Going On(1971) explored complicated subjects like the V...
(9).The Braids, The Bars, and the Blackness: Ruminations on Hip Hop’s World War III – Drake versus Kendrick (Part One) A Conversation by Todd Craig and LeBrandon Smith “By now, it’s safe to say very few people havenotcaught wind of the biggest Hip-Hop battle of the 21st centur...
I saw a body of golden light sucking up all the darkness (blackness) from my chest, with it the greyness of how that darkness resonated in me. Then from the light came a golden heart to replace the darkness - which was still connected by a golden cord to the ‘source’. It was tel...
“A Change Is Gonna Come,” a revolutionary anthem that painted a picture of a society in need of transformation filled with segregation and subpar treatment that could be cured through determination, hope and justice. It was followed by other songs related to the civil rights, blackness, and ...
blues and spirituals and gospel music, ragtime music … folk songs, work songs—all that kind of thing that was going on in Texas in the early ’30s, the Depression years. And I had very intense feelings about all those things … all of this is a part of my blood memory … very int...
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his Los Angeles studio, playing every instrument in the rhythm section. The album released in conjunction with “Invisible Blackness,” an Amazon Music podcast featuring episodes with Public Enemy’s Chuck D and Ladybug Mecca of Digable Planets, as well ...