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The Nashville Museum That Traces The Evolution of Black Music Nashville’s new National Museum of African American Music celebrates the history of gospel, jazz, blues, hip-hop, rap, and more. May 27, 2021 In the NMAAM’s galleries, it’s easy to trace the evolution of Black music from gospel to jazz, blues, and rap.Photo courtesy NMAAM James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, looms larger than life in the Rivers of Rhythm Pathways, the central gallery at Nashville’s new National Museum of Afri...

Story by Kristen Rogers, video by Channon Hodge, CNN • Updated 28th January 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Up next (CNN) — As more people are starting to learn about the history of African Americans, there is one component thats particularly integral to understanding the national culture: music. African American artists created and influenced genres from the blues, jazz and hip-hop to rock and roll. Bluesmen Muddy Waters and B.B. King electrified that genre and galvanized rock guitarists, and t...