An African American woman's voice, a child of Southwest Georgia, a voice raised in song, born in the struggle against racism in America during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s ...
Common elements like memorability, teachability and timelessness can lead to songs moving from the stage to the streets.
The Beatles' "Blackbird" flies into the top 40 for the first time on the U.K. charts, hitting that region on a pair of lists ...
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 ...
The 'Freedom Movement' for civil rights was a turning point in history - Martin Luther King Jr said there was one genre of music essential to powering it.
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 ...