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Introduction. Prologue -- Prehistory. Africa and the West Indies ; New Orleans and the South ; The pattern of diffusion -- Beginnings. From folk to professional ; Early minstrelsy ; Minstrel dances ...

A dancer of Black, Chinese and Latino heritage, Khadifa Wong was frustrated with the lack of opportunities for performers of color. So she turned to film and theater. Her latest project, “Uprooted: ...

Voices honoring female jazz and blues legends Billie Holiday, Phyllis Hyman, Nancy Wilson and Bessie Smith drifted through Aretha's Jazz Café, in Detroit's Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts, ...

Part 1. Prehistory -- part 2. Beginnings -- part 3. The vernacular -- part 4. Tin Pan Alley and song lyrics -- part 5. Broadway and the reviewers -- part 6. Technique : pioneers, innovators, and ...