Category: Black Music Roots

Sort: Date | Title | Views | Random
View:

Sam and Dope

3.07K Views

(716)

Roots of Music — Part I

6.70K Views

Revered Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker, aide to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and university scholar, musically demonstrates with a 100-member choir how Black Americans wrote their true history in musical notes and explains how ...

The Evolution of Sammy Davis

2.59K Views

It's 1983 and Sammy Davis and I sit down and reflect on his television interview with me in 1971. Sammy Davis says, "I’ve survived where other cats would have been down the tubes. A lot of people don’t like themselv...

Songs For The Spirit — Part 2

3.27K Views

Part I & II The popularity of nihilistic and satanic rock music has been blamed for the rise of violence among American youth. The influence of music in American culture is immeasurable. One case in point is th...

Forgotten Legends of Jazz

3.85K Views

Donald Byrd shares his jazz career with Tony Brown and a live studio audience. As a sideman for many other jazz musicians of his generation, Byrd was known as one of the only bebop jazz musicians who successfully pion...

Thank God: An Aframerican Docu-Opera — Part 3

2.53K Views

"The music of the black religious experience," contends Tony Brown, host of the televised "Journal" that bears his name, "is the primary root of all music born in the United States." (806)

God is Ahead by 13 Percent

2.76K Views

Sales for gospel music have grown by 13 percent while they are down by 24 percent for the Hip Hop genre and other popular music forms.  Vicki Mack Lataillade, president of Gospo Centric Records, founded her company wi...

B-BOP

2.96K Views

SALUTES TO MUSIC GREATS (4007)

Michael Jackson: Behind The Mask

4.23K Views

Numerous books have been written about pop star Michael Jackson. However, the book “Michael Jackson: The Man Behind the Mask” is significant because it was written by Jackson insider Bob Jones. Jones was Jackson’s pub...

Black and White Music: The Melting Pot Music

6.32K Views

A look at some of the differences between Black and White music. Performances by Santana, George Duke and Billy Joel. Guests: Harold Wheeler, composer, arranger and conductor.  Wheeler’s arrangements include such hit...