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Tazewell Thompson's "Jubilee," about Fisk University's Jubilee Singers, has its world premiere at Seattle Opera.

Like most music, the blues was not a sudden spontaneous inspiration. Rather, it is a progression of musical styles that ...

After the Civil War, the songs served to educate and connect Americans with their African American neighbors and their own heritage. Advertising The Fisk students were all too aware of the music ...

Developed by WHEDco, the Bronx Music Hall is committed to promoting and nurturing music, dance, theater, and ...

An ad supporting Vice President Harris, which is targeting African American voters, will run during the BET Hip Hop Awards, a ...

The orchestra partners with the Bridges Youth Orchestra and Indiana University's Archives of African American Music and Culture. George Gershwin’s "An American in Paris," Florence Price’s ...

Director Tazewell Thompson has taken an a capella musical he created in 2019 about the original Fisk Jubilee Singers and ...

Grammy-winning artist Meshell Ndegeocello debuts her album 'No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin' at Strathmore. A ...

RRAAM receives first donation in its efforts to renovate True Friends Hall in Donaldsonville into a cultural center to celebrate the history and preserve the legacy of local music in Southeast Louisia ...

There are plenty of local ethnic singers, including the Bonner gospel choir with African American singers who are high quality, probably 200,000 Latino Latter-day Saints in Utah, and many ...

Bass singer Otto Maidi (right) playing the hero Porgy and oprano Nonhlanhla Yende playing the heroine Bess in the semi-staged ...