Black Music: An American (R)evolution

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September 2016
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Free at Last - The story of African American music and the civil rights movement. After the assassination of Martin Luther King, Black musicians moved away from the polite and polished sounds of Motown towards a more aggressive affirmation of their Blackness. But that didn't last, and the angry political message of Public ...
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We Shall Overcome - The story of African American music and the civil rights movement from slavery to Barack Obama's nomination as presidential candidate. The first part looks at black music from the early Negro spirituals sung by slaves in the South, to blues, jazz, bee-bop, soul, rhythm & blues and the freedom songs of t...
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