Dr. Bobby L. Lovett, a noted historian, author and former dean of Tennessee State University’s College of Arts and Sciences, has died at the age of 79.
Museum Exploring Musicâs Black Innovators Arrives in Nashville
The National Museum of African American Music has six interactive sections covering 50 genres of music with a focus on gospel, blues, jazz, R&B and hip-hop.
Each of the museumâs galleries focuses on the development of a genre of music with African-American roots.Credit.NMAAM/353 Media Group
By Kelundra Smith
Feb. 5, 2021
If you want to trace the roots of American popular music, you have to start when Europeans brought enslaved Africans across the Middle Passage. After Emancipation, the sounds of Africa and field hollers and work hymns from the American South dispersed across the country and transformed into new forms: the blues in Mississippi, jazz in New Orleans and later house music in Chicago and hip-hop in the Bronx.