Black artists shaped the sound of American music, and the world took notice, often without giving credit. This Black Music ...

Despite deriving from Black and white Southerners, country music at the time was packaged for segregated audiences. Hillbilly music was released in the 1920s for white record buyers.

The black influence on country music starts with the banjo, which often conjures the hazy image of a white pastoral South. But the instrument is a descendant of West African lutes, made from ...

These white artists may not have thought of themselves as thieves, but the racist structure of the music industry enabled them to profit at black innovators’ expense. Between the 1920s and ’40s, blues ...

Still, each of these 16 songs succeeds on its own terms, which is a vision for America beyond the black and white divide. Trending Stories Kid Rock Joins Trump for Executive Order Limiting Ticket ...

Eight months after penning the anonymous letter "Dear White Music Executives," Warner Records senior vp A&R Ray Daniels is pushing for greater change.

- The commercialization of music in this drawing of this color line, where Black people do race records and the white people over here doing this other thing, hillbilly was always set aside as ...

I’d fallen for white music. As a kid, I had an awful jump shot and no sense of rhythm. I collected comics and played Dungeons & Dragons. I was the opposite of the stereotypical image of a black kid.

I’m intentionally looking for queer artists; Black, Indigenous and people of color artists; female artists — because the stereotype of country music simply isn’t true. Its white image is an ...

The five-piece punk band from Sweden made a splash in the early 2000s, and their incendiary live shows have never stopped. But new music paused for a decade — until now.