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Todd A. Price, USA TODAY
Published
12:11 pm UTC Feb. 22, 2021
Louis Armstrong
Photo: Library of Congress, Illustration: Brian Gray, USA TODAY Network
As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive series, Hallowed Sound.
NEW ORLEANS, La. Saxophonist Donald Harrison, when he listens to the earliest jazz recordings, hears even older sounds. In the playing of those Black musicians from the early 20th century, Harrison discerns elements forged in New Orleans’ Congo Square.
A public market most days, on Sundays it was the one place in the South before the Civil War where Africans, both free and enslaved, could sing and dance in public. Here, the rhythms of Africa, played openly and with abandon, mingled with the musical forms of Europe.
Todd A. Price, The American South
Published
8:58 pm UTC Feb. 8, 2021
Louis Armstrong
Photo: Library of Congress, Illustration: Brian Gray, USA TODAY Network
As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive series, Hallowed Sound.
NEW ORLEANS, La. Saxophonist Donald Harrison, when he listens to the earliest jazz recordings, hears even older sounds. In the playing of those Black musicians from the early 20th century, Harrison discerns elements forged in New Orleans’ Congo Square.
A public market most days, on Sundays it was the one place in the South before the Civil War where Africans, both free and enslaved, could sing and dance in public. Here, the rhythms of Africa, played openly and with abandon, mingled with the musical forms of Europe.
Sun Ra, Odetta, Alabama artists honored at National Museum of African American Music
Updated Feb 09, 2021;
Posted Feb 08, 2021
The National Museum of African American Music opened its doors on January 30, 2021 in Nashville, Tenn. (Courtesy: NMAAM/353 Media Group.)
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A number of Alabama born musicians are honored at the recently opened National Museum of African American Music in Nashville.
A yellow argyle sweater worn by Montgomery-born Nat King Cole is on display at the museum, as well as sheet music from compositions by Father of the Blues, W.C. Handy. Additional Alabama musicians include Odetta, SunRa, Lionel Richie, Brittany Howard, Big Mama Thornton, and Dinah Washington.
Todd A. Price, The American South
Published
8:58 pm UTC Feb. 8, 2021
Louis Armstrong
Photo: Library of Congress, Illustration: Brian Gray, USA TODAY Network
As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive series, Hallowed Sound.
NEW ORLEANS, La. Saxophonist Donald Harrison, when he listens to the earliest jazz recordings, hears even older sounds. In the playing of those Black musicians from the early 20th century, Harrison discerns elements forged in New Orleans’ Congo Square.
A public market most days, on Sundays it was the one place in the South before the Civil War where Africans, both free and enslaved, could sing and dance in public. Here, the rhythms of Africa, played openly and with abandon, mingled with the musical forms of Europe.