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Just because we can’t attend physical events doesn’t mean there’s not a lot of cool stuff happening around the Capital Region. Last week, I had the good fortune to be part of one.
On Feb. 13, the Albany Institute of History & Art held a virtual presentation entitled Black Swan Records and Motown Records – African-American Independent Music Companies. The class, conducted through Zoom by local music historian Donald Hyman, took the few dozen participants on a journey through two of the most important labels in American music and cultural history.
Jimi Hendrix in 1967. Photograph: TT News Agency/AFP/Getty Images
In 1967, Jimi Hendrix accidentally cracked his guitar before a concert. Seeing it was pretty much broken, he decided to destroy it on stage.
When he did, the audience went wild.
Destroying guitars became a regular part of his act. Hendrix destroyed dozens of guitars over his career and one that was salvaged and saved can now be seen in Nashville. All they want is my voice : the real story of Mother of the Blues Ma Rainey Read more
The guitar is on view at the new National Museum of African American Music, which opened on Martin Luther King Jr Day. Tracing over 400 years of black music, from gospel to jazz and R&B, it pays long overdue tributes to musicians like Ma Rainey and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, among others.
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The National Museum of African American Music has six interactive sections covering 50 genres of music with a focus on gospel, blues, jazz, R&B and hip-hop.
Each of the museumâs galleries focuses on the development of a genre of music with African-American roots.Credit.NMAAM/353 Media Group
By Kelundra Smith
Feb. 5, 2021
If you want to trace the roots of American popular music, you have to start when Europeans brought enslaved Africans across the Middle Passage. After Emancipation, the sounds of Africa and field hollers and work hymns from the American South dispersed across the country and transformed into new forms: the blues in Mississippi, jazz in New Orleans and later house music in Chicago and hip-hop in the Bronx.
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