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

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

Now I'm the ‘first African-American country singer.′ That's about the only thing that's changed," he told The Dallas Morning ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Describing the African-American influence on American music in all of its glory an d variety is an intimidating—if not impossible—task. African American influences are so fundamental to American music ...

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.

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 ...

early African American music would become a unifying and driving force among America's slaves. Spirituals, as many of these songs came to be called, expressed faith in God, helped make work more ...