The Heartache of Leaving a Legacy as an African American
Written By: Lamont Jack Pearley
What is the legacy you wish to leave? That is the question I’ve been asking myself way before I was blessed to have kids. What will be my legacy? What…
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Lamont Jack Pearley
Gumbo Friday's where we discuss everything that has to do with African American Tribal Music and the Black Experience. Our main topic of the last few weeks is the Blues in The Bible, Blues People in the Bible, and identifying…
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Lamont Jack Pearley
On this episode I will be discussing Sorrow Songs, Slave Seculars and the early discussions by Musicologists.
Richard Wallaschek, in his Book, Primitive Music(1893) sites that Black Music is a mere imitation of European Compositions. Henry Krehbiel, was an American music…
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Lamont Jack Pearley
On this episode we will be looking into and discussing Eileen Southern, a scholar of Renaissance and African-American music and the first black woman to be appointed a tenured full professor at Harvard University, and her works.
After that, I have…
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Lamont Jack Pearley
On this episode of Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Radio i will be reading from and discussing the Slave Narrative of Ex- Slave Uncle Cinto Lewis.
Uncle Cinto Lewis, ex-slave, claims to "be 111 years old. He lived in a brick cabin…
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Lamont Jack Pearley
On today's show I speak with Valerie June, Working Woman Blues in the flesh, about her humble beginnings, inspirations and taking the long road.
Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Podcast
Lamont Pearly / Jack Dappa Producer / Host / Audio Editor
Deric Johnson /…
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Lamont Jack Pearley
Gumbo Friday were We talk about everything that comes to mind about all things in regards to African American Tribal Music and the Black Experience!
On this episode I speak with Brock Lightnin and Sista Zaki about White Flight, Black Flight,…
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Lamont Jack Pearley
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Interviewer Mrs* Zillah Cross Peel
Person interviewed Aunt Adeline — Age 89
Home 101 Hock Street* Fayetteville. Arkansas
*I was born a slave about 1848, in Hickmon County, Tennessee,*
said Aunt Adeline who lives as care taker in a house at 101 Rock
Street, Faystteville,…
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Lamont Jack Pearley
The Talented Tenth
W.E.B. DuBois
September 1903
The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of…
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Lamont Jack Pearley
Today we will speak about the Great Migration that went West. I will also be joined by Moses Crouch who's a phenomenal musician and historian!
During the decade that followed the stock market crash of 1929, initial Migration slowed to a…