Sentences with phrase «black musicians»

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In this stunningly researched novel, Nicole Mones not only tells the forgotten story of black musicians in the Chinese jazz age, but also weaves in a startling true tale of Holocaust heroism little - known in the West.

Harlan leads a fairly routine life as a young black musician in Jazz Age Harlem; then he and his close friend are invited to perform in Paris, where they get entangled with the Third Reich's brutality.

Whether that looks like paying black writers to write — not just about race, buying art from black artists, watching films and TV shows by black screenwriters and directors, and listening to music from black musicians.

Churches that invite black people and people of color into their «multicultural» worship spaces, but implicitly ask black singers to leave gospel music behind, ask black musicians to leave their hammond B - 3 behind or suggest that black preachers need to leave the fire of their «hoop» or preaching passion behind is a sunken - place theology.

«They became very popular with the entertainment community and legendary black musicians came after gigs [to her house],» Wiederhorn says.

Whitey elevated black musicians and entertainers, paid negros trillions in welfare over a generation, and even let a few of you fuck our beautiful white women.

Just as the girls are close to landing a record deal from an important producer (Curtis Armstrong, adding to his legacy of black musician films in an apparent effort to further shed his reputation as «Booger from Revenge of the Nerds»), Sister's troubled situation costs them their big break.

On Saturday Night Live, it's hard to pin down exactly what the Blues Brothers joke even was: the incongruity of young white men performing music associated with ancient black musicians?

Presumably, Fletcher subjects everyone to this treatment, but it's hard to imagine the young black musicians under his tutelage putting up with a degrading racist verbal onslaught — and we never see it.

The only work lacking a central figure in this first group is «Afrodizzia,» a psychedelic masterpiece of jewel - colored streamers that pays homage to black musicians like Little Richard, Michael Jackson and Miles Davis, even while embellishing their images with comically enormous black Afros.

The most complex, and affecting, of the icons at Dia is icon VIII (1962 - 3), which combines structural elements from icon VII and icon V. Flavin dedicated this work to the 1920s blues singer Blind Lemon Jefferson, and gave it a loaded title; the musician is identified by name and also with a racial slur, apparently intended as a comment on the dismissive treatment of groundbreaking black musicians and on other forms of lingering prejudice in these pivotal years of the Civil Rights movement.

Accordingly, Jones looks at bebop, a jazz practice pioneered by avant - garde black musicians, as her artistic precedent.

Not long after that, Mrs. Tudor spoke up when the high school invited a group of black musicians to come and sing.

Against this backdrop comes a series of unique takes on southern stereotypes, ranging from a bizarre Klan rally to a black musician (Chris Thomas King) who claims to have sold his soul to the devil.

But in hindsight, you can see how the Blaxploitation movies influenced a generation of black musicians and artists by selling a profoundly Afrocentric image, as well as spawning a legacy that can be seen in everything from hip - hop to stand - up comedy.

Bedwell's adapted posters of Black musicians and pop stars plays with the semiotics of the image and text, while subtly referring to Jackson's black heritage.

I displayed my black musician portrait series and a ceramic sculpture series.