Though jazz and classic blues are really early twentieth-century black music innovations ... The minstrel show was born in the same year as William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator, 1831, when Dan Rice-for ...

An American art form now more than a century old, jazz emerged from the streets of New Orleans. The city has produced some of the world's great jazz musicians, none more celebrated than Louis ...

Crosby Kemper full conversation discussing the importance of this vibrant center for Black history and culture with NLBM President Bob Kendrick, American Jazz Museum’s Muriel Boyd, and authors ...

"Jazz will constitute the basis of the musical future of America", said Dr. Darius Milhaud the leader of the modern school of Paris which sponsors the newer musical tendencies, when interviewed by ...

Jackson Pollock's action painting technique reflected the improvisation, freedom, and rhythm of the jazz music he loved. Looking for more? Visit Smithsonian Jazz at the National Museum of American ...

The overarching themes of the novel could be said to be those of the American Dream and the Jazz Age, and more specifically about the clash of these two ideas in America in the 1920s. There is no ...

Navigate your way around the major music festivals of America and zoom to discover ... including The History of Jazz, Delta Blues and How to Listen to Jazz. His next book, Music: A Subversive ...

Jazz emerged as a new style of music in the early twentieth century in the African American communities of New Orleans. Jazz has its origins in blues and ragtime. Jazz features lots of ...

Mamie Smith made history in February 1920 when she ... Obama as “the ambassador who brought his all-American music to the world”. Like jazz, the blues is truly an “all-American music ...

In the roaring twenties, the world buzzed with jazz rhythms and a spirit of liberation. It was an era when African American artists found their creative voices and sought new horizons beyond the ...

One of the most iconic locations in Buffalo is a modest, two-story brick building found on the Michigan Street African ...

It was a big night for the Utah Jazz en route to their fifth victory of the season over the Portland Trail Blazers, but the same can be said for third-year Walker Kessler as he etched his name ...