Recently I came across a new video by Solonge Knowles that displays all these eras of Black music and oppression during the times, but with new a school spin!
To keep celebrating 'Black Music Month' here's Solange Knowles' new video for "I Decided"
Saturday, June 7, 2008
'Music In The Background'
From the days of the Motown 60s, Black music has held African-Americans together. Then came the 70s' funky disco rhythms which provoked Blacks to get out and party. Next the Hip-Hopping 80s. The Popping 90s. And now the Ever Changing 2000s. What's next for music of the future? Who knows!
Recently I came across a new video by Solonge Knowles that displays all these eras of Black music and oppression during the times, but with new a school spin!
To keep celebrating 'Black Music Month' here's Solange Knowles' new video for "I Decided"
Recently I came across a new video by Solonge Knowles that displays all these eras of Black music and oppression during the times, but with new a school spin!
To keep celebrating 'Black Music Month' here's Solange Knowles' new video for "I Decided"
'The Beat Goes On'
With the inception of Negro spirituals, music was a way from Blacks to overcome the hardships faced during slavery.
In 2002, Pres. Bush proclaimed the month of June ‘Black Music Month’. “Black music, in fact, is America's only original music, and the Spirituals-Blues-Jazz-Gospel-Charleston-Twist-Hip Hop gift is the foundation not only of rhythm and blues but also of Broadway, the Grammys and Elvis et al. And we can say of this gift what Virgil Thomson said of jazz: It is ‘the most astounding spontaneous musical event to take place anywhere since the 'Reformation’.
To further help celebrate ‘Black Music Month’, here is a clip of a pioneer of rap, Busta Rhymes’ new single, “We Made It".
In 2002, Pres. Bush proclaimed the month of June ‘Black Music Month’. “Black music, in fact, is America's only original music, and the Spirituals-Blues-Jazz-Gospel-Charleston-Twist-Hip Hop gift is the foundation not only of rhythm and blues but also of Broadway, the Grammys and Elvis et al. And we can say of this gift what Virgil Thomson said of jazz: It is ‘the most astounding spontaneous musical event to take place anywhere since the 'Reformation’.
To further help celebrate ‘Black Music Month’, here is a clip of a pioneer of rap, Busta Rhymes’ new single, “We Made It".
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