Though jazz and classic blues are really early twentieth-century ... Scholars have often noted the hidden meaning of field hollers and the significance of the drums to communication between various ...

Enslaved people would sing work songs while working the plantations and religious spirituals in church. Combined with the African rhythms, these musical styles were the foundation of blues. The ...

Another reminder — with live musical demonstrations on stage — is coming to Kiggins Theatre. As part of its ongoing History ...

Not one place” says Carr. “Birmingham has this jazz history that is really distinctive, unique, and important, I think, José, but unknown,” Matthews told Carr during a conversation in the ...