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Music of the Day: Mel & Tim, Starting All Over Again Another
Music of the Day: Mel & Tim, Starting All Over Again Another amazing soul tune from the 1970s. On the surface, the song is about a man and a woman ...

Music of the Day: Curtis Mayfield, Mighty, Mighty (Spade &
Music of the Day: Curtis Mayfield, Mighty, Mighty (Spade & Whitey) The music of Curtis Mayfield is often referred to as the soundtrack to the civil ...

During the 1960s and 1970s, many jazz musicians developed a
During the 1960s and 1970s, many jazz musicians developed a Pan-Africanist, Afrocentric or global consciousness. Their musical palette expanded drama...

Fela Kuti is the father of Afrobeat music and a revolutionary
Fela Kuti is the father of Afrobeat music and a revolutionary political figure in his home country of Nigeria. He was beaten, tortured and jailed num...

Music of the Day: MC5, The Motor City is Burning MC5 was a
Music of the Day: MC5, The Motor City is Burning MC5 was a porto-punk group emerging out of the Detroit area in 1964. Angry, white and hard-rocking...

Music of the Day: John Coltrane, Alabama The 16th Street
Music of the Day: John Coltrane, Alabama The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed as an act of white supremacist terrorism...

Music of the Day: Phil Ochs, Ballad of Oxford Phil Ochs was one
Music of the Day: Phil Ochs, Ballad of Oxford Phil Ochs was one of the great folk singers of the movement era. he participated in the civil rights ...

Music of the Day: Charles Mingus, Fables of Faubus Orval E.
Music of the Day: Charles Mingus, Fables of Faubus Orval E. Faubus was the governor of Arkansas, who in 1957 sent out the National Guard to prevent...

Music of the Day: Charlie Parker, Groovin High After big band
Music of the Day: Charlie Parker, Groovin High After big band crossed over to mainstream white musicians and audiences in the 1930s and 1940s, blac...