Daily News | Black music is about more than entertainment. It’s a ‘first draft of history’.
, “If we had had a Black Music Association organized 203 years ago, so that Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson and George Washington could have heard some of this music at the very beginning, our country could have avoided a lot of trouble, a lot of heartache, and a lot of struggle, and a lot of suffering, and a lot of division, and would be even greater than it is now.”
He’s right: Black music is about more than just entertainment. It tells the story of Black people, and the history of this nation, both good and bad.Williams, affectionately called the “mother of Black Music Month,” agrees. In a recent direct message to one of us on Twitter, she wrote: “From the birth of America, all genres of Black music, from spirituals to hip-hop, are our unique indigenous art forms.
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