Articles tagged "retelling the history of black music"

Column: Negritude 2.0

Retelling the History of Black Music: The Beautiful Music All Around John Work III

by Mark Reynolds

[8.Aug.08] :. Work recorded the soundtrack of people’s lives, and captured the earliest stirrings of much of the music we’ve enjoyed since World War II.

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Column: Negritude 2.0

Retelling the History of Black Music: Everything You Know about the Blues Is Wrong

by Mark Reynolds

[3.Jul.08] :. For the most part, blacks were not involved in the heroic work of rescuing the black acoustic blues legacy from the passage of time.

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Retelling the History of Black Music: Adventures in Retro-ism

by Mark Reynolds

[7.Mar.08] :. Rightly or wrongly, black audiences have always tended to chase musical innovation, not musical reverence.

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