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African American Tribal Music Revisited: A Blues Ecological and Narrative Reframing
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Published By: Lamont Jack Pearley African American Tribal Music What I once called African American Tribal Music — a term that sought to name the deep, complex musical expressions of Black people in America — is now sharpened by the theoretical lenses of Blues Ecology, Blues Narrative, and Black Southern Afro-Indigenous epistemologies. These frameworks allow us to understand our…
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Treme – African American Tribal Music and The Black Experience
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Published By: Lamont Jack Pearley Most people don’t think to associate the word Tribe or Tribal with African American. For the most part, African and Native American usually comes to mind. However, the irony of the names “African American” and “Native American” are really names that describe the same group of people. Recently, I…
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The Heartache of Leaving a Legacy as an African American
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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 will I be able to leave my children that…
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The Second Migration – Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Radio
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Published by: 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 trickle. But with America’s entry into World War…
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The Social Implications of the Negro Spiritua
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Published by Lamont jack Pearley In my studies and research, I was reminded of an article written by John Lovell and I encourage you all to read it. I will be conducting a thesis or utilizing it in an upcoming video. The Social Implications of the Negro Spiritual* JOHN LOVELL, JR. Early Criticism of…
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The Blues, Black Pain, and Its Psychological Effect
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Published by: Lamont Jack Pearley Why are we as Black folk so possessive of the Blues? Yes, we proved the argument that any other ethnicity doesn’t have to fight for their tradition or heritage. We all know that this music, culture and tradition was brought here during the Middle Passage and landed in…
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BLUES LEGACIES AND BLACK FEMINISM
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Published By Lamont Jack Pearley In our quest to cultivate the African-American, Black American, Negro, Nubian etc, community to not only accumulate a wealthy Library of African American Literature, but to actually read and study our history, heritage and continued climate in the world, I’ve come across a book that I would like to…
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CAN THE BLUES BE TRACED BACK TO THE LOST TRIBES
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Published by Lamont Jack Pearley “ Spirituals & Slave songs are America’s only folk music and the finest distinctive artistic contributions she has to offer” – James Weldon Johnson On my journey researching and studying my heritage, it’s connection to Blues Music and the traditions of christianity the generations of both sides of my…