Here in the U.S., each February is devoted to the celebration the contributions that African Americans have made to society, art, science and culture. This week on the Sing Out! Radio Magazine we’ll join the celebration with music from Mavis … Continue reading →
This week on the Sing Out! Radio Magazine we’ll hear a bit about the establishment on Black History Month and listen to some archival music. We’ll hear tunes from Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong and WC Handy and songs from … Continue reading →
This week we celebrate the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture on the Mall in Washington DC LISTEN: https://singout.org/audio/sorm/sorm1641_podcast.mp3 To subscribe via iTunes, click . | To listen using Stitcher, click . Artist / “Title” … Continue reading →
This post on “Gambler’s Blues”/”St. James Infirmary” is the second installment on variants of the “Unfortunate Rake” ballads. The first installment was on an older, British “Rake” ballad, called “Pills of White Mercury,” in which the narrator comes across a … Continue reading →
This week we begin a two week visit to Louisiana. Our first program focuses on classic Louisiana music and a trip to The Crescent City of New Orleans. Louisiana is a melting pot of many musical traditions. This week we’ll … Continue reading →
Louis Armstrong SatchmoIf there’s any one person to thank for bringing this bit of murderous, Marxist musical-theater satire to a large English-language audience, it’s none other than Louis Armstrong. He was not the first performer of an English version of … Continue reading →
We’ll start today’s posts with some news accounts, to begin thinking about whether and how the facts matter to the song, and how the facts leave their traces, often in indirect ways, in the songs. For the moment at least, … Continue reading →
