By: Lamont Jack Pearley There is excellent Black Folklife, Indian Folklore, Black Music, AND educational oral history in Kentucky and nationally that Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Foundation archives and builds a repository for. In this episode, I discuss Storyville, Oklahoma, Freedmen, Blues,…
Queen Chief Elwin Warhorse Gillum, the host of Cookin' With Chief, is the Queen of Tchefuncta Nation and the Chief of the Chahta Tribe. As appointed by the 365 Elders (Blood Members) of the Tribe, she was appointed the Chief of the Tribe…
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Lamont Jack Pearley
African American Tribal Music
The heritage and culture that are the foundation of what I like to call “African American Tribal Music” are the products of two continents - Africa and America. They stem from a long tradition…
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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…
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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…