Though jazz and classic blues are really early twentieth-century ... when Dan Rice-for the first time in American history-"blacked up" for a variety show in New York's Bowery district. The show became ...

For those of us engaged in trying to understand it, the history of jazz turns out to be much more than a study of this extraordinary American music. Jazz has offered a precise prism through which ...

MSU jazz studies director Rodney Whitaker was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in September.

This February at the museum, we're celebrating a new season of the podcast, commemorating Black History Month, and listening ...

EMUS 3642 (3)–History of Jazz Studies the distinctly American art form of jazz music from its origins to the present, including the various traditions, practices, historical events, and people most ...

Despite being one of American music’s brightest lights in ... which codified a certain narrative of jazz history in the public imagination, did what it could to ignore both.

Crosby Kemper full conversation discussing the importance of this vibrant center for Black history and culture with NLBM President Bob Kendrick, American Jazz Museum’s Muriel Boyd, and authors ...

When Mary Lou Williams arrived at Duke in 1977 as the University’s first artist-in-residence, she was already an icon in the ...

Navigate your way around the major music festivals of America and zoom to discover ... including The History of Jazz, Delta Blues and How to Listen to Jazz. His next book, Music: A Subversive ...

Homeward Bound; Implications; For Bea; From Here to There; Chan Chan; History of Jazz In Reverse; One for Don Cherry; From the Waters of New Orleans.