Shannon Sanders, an African-American South Nashville native and award-winning BMI executive director of creative, reflects on decades of excellence.

Enslaved Africans seeking to reconnect with their lost cultural traditions brought African concepts to instruments in the ...

Lauterbach is well suited to tell the story of Elvis' Black musical forebears. Hailed by historian Greil Marcus as “the most ...

Black American music is music of the spirit, a profound diversity of lessons to be enjoyed. Never duplicated but often imitated, its drumbeats are heartbeats of the inner person that ignites ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — February is Black History Month and the National Museum of African American Music has an invitation to share. It's called Sly Lives: The Burden of a Black Genius and tells ...

The first African American to play the lead role in “Carmen” at the Sydney Opera House is shifting away from her roots to ...

Black Promoters Collective announces black music events for 2025, featuring legendary artists and emerging talent in celebrations of African American culture ...

In Saginaw, locals can celebrate Black History Month at The Castle Museum of Saginaw County History. At noon Feb. 11, Lunch ...

Hailed by historian Greil Marcus as “the most valuable chronicler of African American music as a fulcrum and a center of American culture,” Lauterbach has written a series of crucial histories ...