Welcome to Hidden Voices! This project seeks to explore, document and make public the piano music currently held in the Walker-Hill Collection at the American Music Research Center at CU Boulder. The ...

The Blues. Jazz. Gospel. Soul. R&B. Funk. Rap. So much of the greatest music ever made was born and raised in the American South. Black musicians in the Jim Crow South entertained on the so-called ...

available on BBC Sounds – we explore the profound contribution black composers are making to classical music ‘Growing up I thought of a composer as a dead, white male – and just accepted ...

The growing popularity of Black country artists, spurred in part by Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter,” has sparked a conversation ...

Black country, folk and blues musicians have always been vital to ... He is also a folk archivist and music historian who enjoys collaborating with other musicians. His 2023 album, "Traveling ...

As the country prepares to say goodbye to former President Jimmy Carter, those in the music industry are reflecting on Carter ...

Explore the stories and music of Black artists who relied on an underground ... Features performances and interviews with vocalists, musicians, activists, historians and others.

Who was the first black composer of classical music? Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, is the first-known classical music composer of African roots. When was Beethoven born? He was born ...

His “Black Music,” for saxophone quartet and trumpet ... And not just any congregant: it was James Curnow, the esteemed concert band composer. Curnow, himself the beneficiary of Salvation ...

Born in 1917, Ulysses Kay was a composer who played a big role in the development of what's known as the post-war era of western classical music. Encouraged by a fellow Black composer, William ...