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…