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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: Rock Firsts By Black Artists
Description: We would not be sitting here talking about rock music if it weren’t for people of African descent…if you start in the present and begin to trace things backward to important innovations and accomplishments, nine times out of ten, you’ll end up exploring something from black culture…And we can go way, way back—right to 1619 when the first slave ship arrived in north America at the British colony of Virginia carrying about 20 captives…Over the centuries that followed, the people of Africa, consisting of many different communities, nations, tribes, and cultures, were brought...