The Culture Corner: R&B music in the ’70s
R&B music would not exist without America’s Black communities. It’s an enormously popular genre invented, nurtured and innovated by Black artists.
The Culture Corner: R&B music in the ’70s
February is Black History Month, and each week, all month long, World Cafe correspondent John Morrison will be taking you through the history of R&B through the decades, beginning in the ’70s. In this session, John considers how his mom would have felt as a 20-year-old, hearing Aretha Franklin singing songs like “(To Be) Young, Gifted and Black.”
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