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Podcast: Black History Year
Episode: The History They Didn't Tell You About the Blues with Chris Thomas King
Description: This week, we’re pulling back the curtain on American music history—and asking who really gets to define it.
Grammy-winning Blues musician and cultural historian Chris Thomas King drops in to break down why everything we’ve been taught about the origins of the blues is wrong. Because Chris is letting it be known: it didn't start on Mississippi plantations—he's taking us to Congo Square, Creole New Orleans, and Storyville, where he argues the blues was born out of resistance, freedom, and Saturday night defiance. From ancient African instruments to the invention of “jazz” as a sanitizing...