Shannon Sanders, an African-American South Nashville native and award-winning BMI executive director of creative, reflects on ...

The album, which recently won multiple Grammys, honored Black people's influence and cultural impact in country music. “It’s awakened such a discussion,” says Royster, an English professor ...

However, African American culture helped shape country music. When thinking of country music, Johnny Cash of Kingsland, Ark., ...

Black artists have long been a part of the country music industry, lending some of their cultural influences to arguably one of the most American of music genres. However, they have often faded ...

so portraits of African American musicians, much like other markers of status that were long denied to people of color in European-controlled territories, serve as a cultural acknowledgment of their ...

He's also one of a very few African American performers to succeed in the country genre. Rucker was very well-established in a career as the singer of Hootie & the Blowfish, and had also released ...

Country might appear to be the whitest ... Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens explores the history of African American roots music through the stories of forgotten black pioneers.