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Fats Domino: Rock'n'Roll’s Quiet Rebel Who Defied US Segregation

The groundbreaking musician who inspired Elvis and The Beatles.

by Brian Ward via The Conversation on October 26, 2017

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The Question of Cultural Appropriation

It’s more helpful to think about exploitation and disrespect than to define cultural “ownership.”

by Briahna Joy Gray via Current Affairs on September 6, 2017

Every Song of the Summer Since 1958

Each year there is one undeniable 'song of summer.'

by MetroLyrics via YouTube on August 24, 2017

Bring the Noize

A search for the source of Southern hip-hop’s magic will always lead you to three men from Atlanta, known to the world as Organized Noize.

by Joycelyn Wilson via The Bitter Southerner on June 27, 2017

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The Thinning of Big Mama

"Big Mama" does what all blues greats do: she telegraphs endurance and force to whomever out there in TV land might need it. This is blues perfection.

by Cynthia Shearer via Oxford American on February 15, 2017

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Think Twice

Unreleased tracks show an alternate Dylan: not the folky bard of the standard biographies, but the hippest young blues singer in Greenwich Village.

by Elijah Wald via Oxford American on December 13, 2016

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