The banjo became the backbone of American roots music and culture through minstrelsy — white America's most popular form of entertainment in the early 1800s – in which white performers ...

Lizzo denied claims that she makes music for a "white audience," which she said was the "biggest criticism" she had received. She explained that she makes music from her "Black experience." ...

- 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 ...

At The Intersection Of Black Culture And Country Music Lies History. Let's talk fact, history, strategy, money, business, and Beyoncé's chart-topping album ...

Angel White is a country singer you need to know, hailing from Texas and celebrating cowboy songs on his album 'Ghost of the ...

Francesca Royster's "Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions" is an incomplete but important, often lyrical study of a growing subgenre.

Thurman reflects on how historically, classical music has been used both by dominant white cultures to civilize Black music-making as well as Black musicians to obtain proximity to whiteness. She also ...