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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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.
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 ...
The group, on the road celebrating its 50th anniversary, comes to SFJAZZ Center's Miner Auditorium this week for a four-day run. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday.
The actor said it was interesting trying to capture Dylan’s style of guitar playing, including favouring a lot of downstrokes to get the right urgency for the song. When internalising the power behind ...
His music endures in the streaming era - with the song Jump In The Line (Shake Senora ... the artist was a notable and visible supporter of the civil rights movement, who bankrolled several ...