Though jazz and classic blues are really early twentieth ... of the American slave trade--had already taken on special significance in the history of black music-making in America. The most ...

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 ...

EMUS 1437/3437/5437 (1)–Jazz Combo Please contact the music department for more information. EMUS 3642 (3)–History of Jazz Studies the distinctly American art form of jazz music from its origins to ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Mamie Smith made history in February 1920 when she ... Obama as “the ambassador who brought his all-American music to the world”. Like jazz, the blues is truly an “all-American music ...

It has been a staple of the Northwest music scene, celebrating a diverse array of the rich history of recorded jazz and its related sub-genres, ensuring that this uniquely American art form ...