Recently added articles from Black Music Research Journal:

"When we send up the praises": race, identity, and gospel music in Augusta, Georgia.(Critical essay)

Sep 22, 2007; Allen, Carrie A. ... James Brown, "Godfather of Soul" and social activist. The Swanee Quintet, a gospel group that in its heyday headlined at Harlem's Apollo Theater. Springfield Baptist Church, one of the oldest independent African-American Baptist churches in the United States. Paine College, an academic ...

Black pop songwriting 1963-1966: an analysis of U.S. top forty hits by Cooke, Mayfield, Stevenson, Robinson, and Holland-Dozier-Holland.(Sam Cooke, Curtis Mayfield, William Stevenson, Smokey Robinson, Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland)(Critical essay)

Sep 22, 2007; Fitzgerald, Jon ... Black songwriter-performers such as Fats Domino, Little Richard, and Chuck Berry achieved success on the U.S. pop charts (1) as leading contributors to the development of 1950s rock and roll. Rock and roll's impact had waned by the late 1950s, however, and white songwriter-producers ...

Black diasporic encounters: a study of the music of Fela Sowande.(Critical essay)

Sep 22, 2007; Omojola, Bode ... Fela Sowande is now generally acknowledged as the most important twentieth-century West African composer of concert music and performer of jazz. Born in Oyo, western Nigeria, in March 1905, he went to London in 1934 and enrolled as an external candidate at the University of London and the ...