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Black Music Since the 70s
As inner city dwellers create America's musical trends that started in the 40s, there has been a concerted effort to make music that depicts their reality.
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Motown - Part 2
Detroit songwriter Berry Gordy takes the entrepreneurial step and makes history.
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2008 Mobo Award Nominees
The Mobo (Music of Black Origin) Awards revealed their list of nominees this week which includes Estelle, Dizzie Rascal and UK X Factor favorite Leona Lewis.
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Video Soul: Video Gold
Video Soul is back, reminding us that R&B music once had its own network
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The Atlantic Records Story
How a Turkish ambassador's son and a Jewish New York intellectual introduced r&b to white America.
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The Savoy Records Story
The label that oversaw the shift from swing to bop and jump.
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Where's The Soul?
Commentary on the state of r&b/soul music in the year 2000; where to find good soul music on the Net.
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2001 Dove Award Nominees
The following Dove Award Nominees for 2001 are in....Is your pick on this list?
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2001 Dove Award Winners
The 2001 Dove Award Winners are announced! On this page you can see who was nominated and the winner out of the best of Christian Music.
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The Godfather of Rap
In Music is My Life, Politics My Mistress, director donnie l betts is the first to comprehensively tell the life story of Oscar Brown Jr. He talks about the challenges.
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Ruff Stuff Part 1 of 2
This week's article is not a typical one, due to the fact that this is primarily an interview with Tary Owens, owner of Catfish Records and blues historian. However, throughout the interview, there will be links to various sites when Tary speaks of something or someone that has a web site. Most of these sites will deal with entertainers, and not education per se, but like I have said in the past, a good teacher knows how to make a lesson out of just about anything.
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1956: Rock and roll music (Early Rock Part II)
Rock in the year 1956, a follow-up to last week's 1955: Rock is born. In this, we see Elvis, Little Richard and the Million-Dollar Quartet come on to the scene, as well as a short comment on rock's influence on segregation in the States.
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1960 (Part II: Motown)
This week, we take a look at Motown's beginnings, mainly around 1960. We see how Berry Gordy Jr got his start, founded the company, met Smokey Robinson and gained success.
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Early Influences Part I: The Legacy
The events and sounds that led up to the greatest music of all time, rock and roll. From the fields to the studios, the forces that shaped the history of the world.
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Chicago - Part 2
The first years of the Chess and Vee Jay dynasties which saw the rise of doo-wop and ever-more electric guitar.
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Chicago - Part 3
The hot guitarists of the late 1950s and the golden era of Windy City Soul.
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Busta and Ozzy, DMX and Marilyn
Rock meets rap, but is it really all good?

Home to Columbus
Ma Rainey returns to Columbus and becomes a theatrical businesswoman. On December 22, 1939, Gertrude Pridgett 'Ma' Rainey died.
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Re-Discover: SOS Band
These groups had plenty of hits in their day. If you can find a needle, blow the dust off the record and these jams will still make you move.
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SpeedGarage.com
An inside story of Mixed Tapes. How did it start and where will it go. I'm sure all will enjoy this wonderful written piece from SpeedGarage.com.
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First BET Awards
In light of June being Black Music Month, Black Entertainment Television kicked off its first ever BET Awards on June 19, 2001.


BET Awards 2006
Dazzling awards show featured live performances by Prince, Chaka Khan, Mary J. Blige, Stevie Wonder
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Book Review Part 1: The Crisis of the African-American Architect
A part 1 of 3 book review on an influential book recently published by a Howard University graduate and Professor. The book reflects on the great beginnings of art and how it relates to other creative artforms that was masterfully expanded during the Harlem Renaisance by Booker T. Washington.
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First Recording: Original Dixieland Jass Band
A brief history of how and where the first jazz recording took place
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Historical Fiction for Summer Reading
Back-to-School may be just around the corner for some of you, but here's a quick look at some titles to fill those last lazy days of summer reading!
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Langston Hughes: Poet Laureate of Harlem
A reflection on Langston Hughes contribution to history and a review of one of Hughes influential poems.
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Morris Levy and George Goldner
Two major behind-the-scenes players in the development of r&b.
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1958: Rock meets American Bandstand (Early Rock Part IV)
A look at the events in 1958 leading to Early rock's demise and the triumph and dance and dance related things.
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Memphis - Part 1
A look at early key events, including a black-radio milestone and the making of the world's first rock & roll record.
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More Postwar West-Coast Labels
More key figures in the California black-entertainment boom of the late forties and fifties.
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New Orleans - Part 1
How the birthplace of jazz experienced a rockin' musical rebirth after World War II.
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Texas - Part 1
How the unique flavor of Lone Star r&b was cooked up in the ballrooms of Dallas, Houston and San Antonio.
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The Chess - Motown Connection
How the Chicago-based Chess dynasty helped give birth to Berry Gordy's Detroit-based empire.
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The Drifters
George Treadwell and Atlantic Records gave America eighteen years of cutting-edge r&b evolution with various combinations bearing this name.
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Top Ten Most Memorable Moments Ever
We finish off this year, decade, century, millenium (and for those who say that it's in 2001, too bad, I don't care, and I write this article, not you.) with a look at the most memorable moments in rock history. This doesn't mean necessarily the most influential, or shocking, or even a combination of the two. It just means the moments like the Kennedy assassination when you think back and remember where you were at that time. Concerts, murders, festivals, press conferences and riots are all included here, so it should have a bit of variety.
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What Country and Southern Rock Owe To Classic Soul Music Pt. 2
How Alabama soul provided the roots for much of modern music.
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Anointed
A group of gospel singers, whose mission and purpose is to spread the good news of Jesus Christ through our music ministry
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Atlantic's Early Years - A Closer Look
The beginnings of one of the most important r&b institutions of the last half-century.
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Etta James
She has one of the most powerful voices in r&b and she's lived the most colorful life in a field brimming with colorful lives.
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INTERRACIAL ROMANCE: MISSISSIPPI MASALA, ZEBRAHEAD
A look at MISSISSIPPI MASALA and ZEBRAHEAD, two films that take a fresh look at interracial romance.
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Philadelphia Soul
The golden moment of a fabulously talented group of writers, producers, singers and players in the City of Brotherly Love.
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R&B, Jazz, and Questions of Standards and Taste
Schools of thought have developed along sharp boundary lines on these matters of musical and cultural controversy. Where do you stand?
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Sam Cooke
A look at the enigmatic, impossibly handsome pop idol and the demons behind the clean-cut image.
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The All-Time Top 100 R&B Tunes - Part 1: The Top Ten
A carefully thought-out ranking of the very best of black popular music from 1945 onward.
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The All-Time Top 100 R&B Tunes - Part 3: 21 - 30
Ten more indispensable gems of honesty, beauty and sublime fervor.
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The Story of Gospel Music
Gospel music sprung from the early African-American church and inspired a host of modern day choirs and contemporary gospel/R&B sounds.
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