/tags/african-american-music-history african american music history en-US Copyright Wed, 20 Dec 2023 17:34:53 GMT /2023-12-20/new-disc-features-first-recordings-of-works-by-african-american-composers Conductor Kellen Gray's most recent recording, African American Voices II, is the first major recording of important works by three noted African American composers - but it is more than that. The recording’s collection of distinctive musical voices stands to bring nuance to our understanding of the landscape of African American music. Wed, 20 Dec 2023 17:34:53 GMT /2023-12-20/new-disc-features-first-recordings-of-works-by-african-american-composers Jennifer Hambrick /show/the-american-sound/2019-01-15/columbus-composer-mark-lomaxs-afrikan-epic-tells-400-years-of-african-american-history Four hundred years ago this year, the first African people were taken from their homelands and brought to colonial America – thus instituting slavery in… Tue, 15 Jan 2019 12:45:00 GMT /show/the-american-sound/2019-01-15/columbus-composer-mark-lomaxs-afrikan-epic-tells-400-years-of-african-american-history Jennifer Hambrick