Berry Gordy Jr. started Tamla Records with the help of an $800 loan from his family, starting a journey that would forever ...

Across several professional landscapes, Black women continue to be the mold. They pioneer new sounds, boldly creating from a ...

Gilbert Flores / Variety via Getty Images There isn’t a single music genre that the artistry of a Black person hasn’t touched.Artists like Rachel ...

Dodo Nyoka has defended his right to sing Afrikaans pop music, despite social media backlash from black South Africans.

The growing popularity of Black country artists, spurred in part by Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter,” has sparked a conversation around the history of the genre and the past and present racial tensions ...

Black popular music, critical race theory, and decolonial theory Reiland Rabaka, The Funk Movement: Music, Culture, and Politics (London: Routledge, 2025). Reiland Rabaka, Black Women’s Liberation ...

Black artists have long been a part of the country music industry, lending some of their cultural influences to arguably one of the most American of music genres. However, they have often faded ...

Received wisdom has it that black popular music arrived in Europe with the Empire Windrush in 1948, but Clarke brings us black sounds recorded in Europe from as far back as 1900. Focusing on early ...