Civil Rights

  • African American Tribal Music Revisited: A Blues Ecological and Narrative Reframing

    African American Tribal Music Revisited: A Blues Ecological and Narrative Reframing

    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…

  • Guy Davis – Talking Bout The Blues With Ep 2

    Guy Davis – Talking Bout The Blues With Ep 2

    Published By Lamont Jack Pearley “Talking Bout The Blues With” is a documentary series which presents the Oral history of The Blues and African American history told by the Bluesman themselves. On this Episode, Guy Davis – Double K in Beat street, and son of Legendary Actors/Directors/ Activists Ossie Davis and Ruby – discusses…