Black Heartbreak: Black American Music About Love Lost (Part One) by Music In Culture: Sounds of the Black Experience published on 2019-04-08T04:16:12Z Part One of this show is about the array of attitudes and emotions about heartbreak that are reflected in the Black experience through African American Music. We hear from a few blues men, Aretha Franklin, Billie Holiday (in honor of her April 7th birthday), Carmen McRae, and the forlorn and sometimes sassy black female perspective on heartbreak and the ending of a relationship.