Grandmother: Jazz Vocals And The Artistic Genius Of Black Women - Part 2 by Music In Culture: Sounds of the Black Experience published on 2019-05-06T03:51:11Z New from Music and Culture: Sounds of the Black Experience. "Grandmother: Jazz Vocals and the Artistic Genius of Black Women." A tribute to the Black women who were the architects of Black American song. The show includes commentary on the African origins of the Black American jazz (and blues) singer, black jazz vocals and black femininity, cultural appropriation and the contemporary whitening of jazz, Beyonce' fever, documentary interviews and tributes to the true geniuses of Black American Music - Billie Holiday, Etta Jones, Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen Mcrae, Sarah Vaughan, Lorez Alexandria, Dinah Washington, Nancy Wilson and Betty Carter. I also share my personal memories of each jazz singer and from my travels in...Africa! More information at www.EthnomusicologyInAction.org.
