Revolution: The booming songs Nina Simone wrote for the civil rights movement
As well as being an incredible songwriter and performer, Nina Simone was a tireless activist within the civil rights movement, which often influenced her music.
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Music in the Civil Rights Movement
An African American woman's voice, a child of Southwest Georgia, a voice raised in song, born in the struggle against racism in America during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s ...
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Oh Freedom! Songs of the Civil Rights Movement brings music and history together
On the evening of Oct. 10, Doudna Fine Arts Center hosted Oh Freedom! Songs of the Civil Rights Movement, a concert dedicated ...
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The powerful influence of Gospel Music on the Civil Rights Movement
It was the main soundtrack that played out throughout the Civil Rights Movement. The music provided courage and a voice to fight for equality, justice, and so much more. The sound of soul-stirring ...
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Songs with soul: tracks influenced by the civil rights movement
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Aretha Franklin: The sound of the civil rights movement
Aretha Franklin grew up in 1950s Detroit, surrounded from childhood by the now-famous faces of the civil rights movement. Her songs would become their anthems. Her Baptist minister father was the ...
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Craig Charles’s top 10 civil rights anthems
To mark Soul Music's exploration of Songs of the Civil Rights Movement and Sam Cooke's A Change Is Gonna Come, BBC 6 Music's Craig Charles picks ten of his favourite pivotal protest songs.
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Protest albums to exercise your voice
It’s election season, and while the ballot is one way to make your voice heard, these artists believe in another way to ...
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COLUMN | The influence of politics on music
Music and politics have been intertwined continuously and the relationship between the two exists at an all-time high in the ...
How Black musicians are shaping modern music
The historical significance of Black popular music in American culture is powerful. Even former President Jimmy Carter ...
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Flutist Adam W. Sadberry will honor a Civil Rights hero, his grandfather, at Spivey Hall
The musician never knew his grandfather but was inspired to develop a musical program based on the courageous man’s life and career as a journalist during the Civil Rights Movement. Adam W. Sadberry ...
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Freedom Songs: The Music of the Civil Rights Movement
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