Blues has been called the first truly American music. The colour blue has described melancholy and depression since Elizabethan times, but as a musical form its style was born from the experiences ...

May 5, 2025 • Ryan Coogler's period thriller knows "the devil's music" isn't the opposite of the holy word, but its twin. February 28, 2025 • The iconic voices of female jazz & blues legends ...

Jordan, and its relationship to music, genre and gatekeeping ... tension between the ground-level cultural revolution of the blues and the parasitic music industry, depicted here as literal ...

It’s a visual expression of Black music’s shared DNA. My girlfriend and I spent all weekend analyzing that scene, pondering the blues’ connections to what came before and since. Here are 11 ...

Robert Mugge has produced and directed documentary feature films about bluegrass and zydeco and reggae; about New Orleans musicians, in exile from Hurricane Katrina; about Hawaiian dance; about the ...