Lonnie Johnson, who was based in St. Louis, recorded a flood ... But the vast majority of African American recording artists, especially blues and gospel singers, sold almost entirely within ...

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Rhythm and Blues wasn’t just a genre—it was a powerful force ... Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Cashman, Sean D. (1991). African Americans & the Quest for Civil Rights, 1900-1990.

The blues is a style of music created by African Americans at the end of the 19th Century. It developed out of folk music, spiritual songs and work songs. The blues would have been originally ...