Category: American History
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Westward Bound Cowboy and Country with Dom Flemons and Vania Kinard
African-American Country Music History & Cowboy Lore through Sunday December 14 at Berkeley Public Library DeFord Bailey Legacy Festival December 13-15 at Freight & Salvage Bay Area folks! Dom Flemons and Vania Kinard are curating a music festival and library exhibit celebrating the history of African-American Cowboy Culture and Country Music. The weekend of music…
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Let’s take a ride down memory blvd: Kendrick Lamar’s Squabble Up
Art by Author The excitement I felt when I heard the Debbie Deb sample on Kendrick Lamar’s Squabble Up off his new GNX project was overwhelming. It took me right back to being 12 and starting to navigate the treacherous teenage years with the help of music. The first record I remember buying was Fascinated…
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Harmonies and healing Frequencies: Musician Cinamon Blair carries On the musical legacy of her grandfather, left-handed Banjo & Guitar jazz musician Lee Blair
As I was recovering from the flu last week I decided to watch the documentary American Symphony on Netflix and it was absolutely heart-wrenching and timely and spoke to the incredible creativity required to survive a history as brutal and violent as American history. The story really reminded me of the healing and survival power…
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South Dakota’s Bazille is Wakinyan Cante Waokiya Wicasaon
Whether its the Bronx or the Black Hills, All Rap is Local I’ve always thought of rap as a form of folk music or street journalism such that it is a localized art form that springs forth from a specific community to define a specific time and place and the lyricist, a poetic scribe, shares…