Fans loved the smooth sounds of jazz and catchy doo-opp tunes of the 1950s. This list includes the biggest artists of the ...

To mark Soul Music's exploration of Songs of the Civil Rights Movement and Sam Cooke's ... courtesy of probably the best gospel singer the world has ever given birth to. Her husband caught her ...

These songs and chants of freedom, sung by protestors, activists, and civil rights leaders during the 1950s and 1960s, have now been taken up anew in "Soundtrack" by such contemporary performers ...

Aretha Franklin grew up in 1950s Detroit, surrounded from childhood by the now-famous faces of the civil rights movement. Her songs would become their anthems. Her Baptist minister father was the ...

Many of the songs in the 1950s hinted at the simmering racial tension that would later usher in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. The 1950s was a pivotal era in music, laying the groundwork ...

The Natchez Festival of Music will honor the enduring legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at “Songs from the Battleground.” ...

It will feature Yiddish folk songs, civil rights songs, jazz, spirituals and theater songs. All Yiddish songs will be accompanied by supertitles. The celebration is actually taking place in the ...