* African-American music

He took a considerable risk during the mid-1960s, when the Civil Rights Movement sparked violence throughout the South by signing country music's first African-American singer Charley Pride, who sang rawer country than the smoother music Atkins had pioneered.

Freed also made a practice of presenting music by African-American artists rather than cover versions by white artists on his radio program.

It was dominated by " hard " electro beats of the type used primarily in African-American rap music, yet was mostly produced, sung, DJed and appreciated by Latinos.

Category: African-American music

Category: African-American music

He became a devoted fan of hip-hop music, and engaged in extensive discussions on Usenet newsgroups, sometimes pretending to be an African-American rapper who would criticize others for " acting black ".

Category: African-American music

Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R & B and RnB, is a genre of popular African-American music that originated in the 1940s.

Category: African-American music

The music is intended to be representative of an African-American dance contest in which the prize is a cake.

Category: African-American music

The descriptive terminology may have originated in the mid-1960s, when soul was a common definer used to describe African-American culture ( for example, soul music ).

* African-American music and ragtime rise to popularity in the later part of the decade.

By 1950, another emerging musical trend, the African-American popular music style known as Rhythm and Blues driven by musicians like Fats Domino was drawing young audiences away.

The Omaha Black Music Hall of Fame celebrates the city's long history of African-American music and the Strathdon Caledonia Pipe Band carries on a Scottish legacy.

Its mission is to promote African-American cultural contributions of blues music and folk art.

Dick Higgins likewise attributes scat singing to traditions of sound poetry in African-American music.

Charles " Buddy " Bolden ( September 6, 1877 – November 4, 1931 ) was an African-American cornetist and is regarded by contemporaries as a key figure in the development of a New Orleans style of rag-time music which later came to be known as jazz.

" Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women's Issues and Knowledge ( 2000 ) documented that Jackson, along with other prominent African-American women, had achieved financial breakthroughs in mainstream popular music, receiving " superstar status " in the process.

An openness to African-American culture and arts was apparent in literature and music, notably jazz.

Category: African-American music

Formed in 1977 and consisting of all African-American members, their early songs featured some of the fastest tempos in rock music.

Burnett stated that he also intended to make the film a history of African-American music and filled it with music from a variety of genres and different eras.

Carnegie was a large benefactor of the Tuskegee Institute under Booker T. Washington for African-American education.

The distinctive “ double-pull ” format that typifies most of these songs — also at times used, with slight changes, for pumps, windlass, and capstan, too — was a later development that appears to owe much to African-American work songs.

" It concluded, among other things, that Head Start programs designed to boost African-American IQ scores had failed, and that this was likely never to be remedied, largely because, in Jensen's estimation, 80 % of the variance in IQ in the population studied was the result of genetic factors and the remainder was due to environmental influences.

It is a common misconception that Jackie Robinson was the first African-American major-league ballplayer ; he was actually only the first after a long gap ( and the first in the modern era ).

Walsh was viewed as a strong advocate for African-American head coaches in the NFL and NCAA.

One of the results of the one-drop rule was uniting the African-American community.

Charles Henry Alston ( November 28, 1907 – April 27, 1977 ) was an African-American painter, sculptor, illustrator, muralist and teacher who lived and worked in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem.

The second development was the rise of the African-American civil rights movement, environmentalism, and consumerism.

Full enfranchisement of citizens was not secured until after the African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955 – 1968 ) gained passage by the United States Congress of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Another guest who never appeared on the show because of the controversy surrounding him was legendary African-American singer-actor Paul Robeson, who, at the time of the Draper incident, was undergoing his own troubles with the industry's hunt for Communist sympathizers.

" He was also heavily influenced by an African-American dancer Dancing Dotson, whom he saw at Loew's Penn Theatre around 1929, and was briefly taught by Frank Harrington, an African-American tap specialist from New York.

One of his students was William Seymour, an African-American preacher.

It appears that Parsons was mostly apolitical, although he did refer to one of the younger African-American butlers in the Connor household as being " like a brother " to him in an interview.

Local officials brutalized blacks and prevented them from leaving relief camps, aid meant for African-American sharecroppers was often given to the landowners instead, and many times black males were conscripted by locals into forced labor, sometimes at gun point.

Booker T. Washington was the previous African-American to have dined at the White House, with Theodore Roosevelt in 1901.

It was initially popularized circa 1984 in discothèques catering to gay and mixed, primarily African-American and Latino audiences in Chicago, but beginning in 1985, fanned out to other major cities such as Detroit, Toronto, New York City, Boston, Montreal, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Manchester, Miami, London, and Paris.

Note that the aspectual systems of certain dialects of English, such as African-American Vernacular English ( see for example habitual be ), and of creoles based on English vocabulary, such as Hawaiian Creole English, are quite different from those of standard English, and often distinguish aspect at the expense of tense.

Lawrence's work often portrayed important periods in African-American history.

New semi-regular characters introduced by Collins and Fletcher included: Dr. Will Carver, a plastic surgeon with underworld ties who often worked on known felons ; Wendy Wichel, a smarmy newspaper reporter / editorialist with a strong anti-Tracy bias in her articles ; and Lee Ebony, an African-American female detective.

Owing to the discrimination of the day, " corking ( or " blacking ") up " provided an often singular opportunity for African-American musicians, actors, and dancers to practice their crafts.

Early blackface minstrels often said that their material was largely or entirely authentic to African-American culture ; John Strausbaugh, author of Black Like You, said that such claims were likely to be untrue.

This led to cross-cultural collaborations, as Giddins writes ; but particularly to the often ruthless exploitation and outright theft of African-American artistic genius, as well — by other, white performers and composers ; agents ; promoters ; publishers ; and record company executives.

For more than a century, when white performers have wanted to appear sexy, ( like Elvis or Mick Jagger ); or streetwise, ( like Eminem ); or hip, ( like Mezz Mezzrow ); they often have turned to African-American performance styles, stage presence and personas.

Pop culture referencing and cultural appropriation of African-American performance and stylistic traditions — often resulting in tremendous profit — is a tradition with origins in blackface minstrelsy.

Descendants of African-American immigrants, or Americo-Liberians, were often called Creoles.

However, it appears that African-American youth are more often diagnosed with conduct disorder, while Asian youth are about one-third as likely to develop conduct disorder when compared to Caucasian youth.

Primus often based her dances on the work of black writers and on racial and African-American issues.

Frances Willard often came into conflict with progressive African-American journalist and anti-lynching crusader Ida B.

" Lift Every Voice and Sing " — often called " The Negro National Hymn ", " The Negro National Anthem ", " The Black National Anthem ", or " The African-American National Anthem "— is a song written as a poem by James Weldon Johnson ( 1871 – 1938 ) and set to music by his brother John Rosamond Johnson ( 1873 – 1954 ) in 1900.

During and after the American Civil Rights Movement, the song experienced a rebirth, and by the 1970s was often sung immediately after " The Star Spangled Banner " at public events and performances across the United States where the event had a significant African-American population.

He is often referred to as " the Dean " of African-American composers.

Because so many people migrated in a short period of time, the African-American migrants were often resented by the urban European-American working class ( often themselves recent immigrants ); fearing their ability to negotiate rates of pay or secure employment, they felt threatened by the influx of new labor competition.

In contrast to their generally high level of tolerance for the dialects of other English-speaking countries, speakers often express disdain for features of certain regional or ethnic dialects, such as Southern American English's use of y'all, Geordies ' use of " yous " as the second person plural personal pronoun, and non-standard forms of " to be " such as " The old dock bes under water most of the year " ( Newfoundland English ), or " That dock be under water every other week " ( African-American Vernacular English ).

Even more popular among blacks and with more crossover appeal, was album-oriented soul in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which revolutionized African-American music with intelligent and introspective-lyrics, often with a socially aware tone.

The Castles ’ performances, often set to ragtime and jazz rhythms, also popularized African-American music among well-heeled whites.

When asked about the strategy of using race as an issue to build GOP dominance in the once-Democratic South, Mehlman replied, " Republican candidates often have prospered by ignoring black voters and even by exploiting racial tensions ," and, " by the ' 70s and into the ' 80s and ' 90s, the Democratic Party solidified its gains in the African-American community, and we Republicans did not effectively reach out.

Idiopathic TTP occurs more often in women and black / African-American people, while the secondary forms do not show this distribution.