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The Evolution of Black Music didyouKNOW? 2 The A&T Register | ncatregister.com | Wednesday, October 31, 2018 THE A&T REGISTER STAFF EDITOR IN CHIEF: Alexis Wray Fill in that LYRIC MANAGING EDITOR: Zila Sanchez ... DIGITAL MEDIA DIRECTOR: Brittany Van Pelt 1. Outstanding (So outstanding) YARD EDITOR: Elaijah Gibbs-Jones Girl, ______Excited (I’m so excited, baby) CULTURE EDITOR: Kayla Clarke WORD EDITOR: Allison Gilmore It makes me want to shout SCORE EDITOR: TyRel Thompson EDITOR: Victoria Turner

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Gospel originated in the 1800s in Black churches mainly located in the Bible-belt. Thomas A. Dorsey, known as the father of gospel, spent many years writing and performing music which has now led to various styles of gospel like spirituals, hymns and sacred songs. Over the years, many artist like Kirk Franklin, Travis Greene, , Tasha Cobbs and have continued the legacy by revolutionizing and making it more appealing to all HISTORY audiences.

Contributed Photo: Travis Greene Travis Greene, a modern gospel artist, performs one of his hit singles. OLD-SCHOOL STOMP

Intentional There’s A Leak in this Old Building - LaShun Pace Long As I Got King Jesus - Goin’ Up Yonder - Walter Hawkins testimony I Told the Storm - Greg O’Quin I Shall Wear A Crown - Pastor Ronnie L Lee Silver and Gold - Kirk Franklin KAYLA CLARKE Greene started his music career in Order My Steps - Tabernacle Choir theCulture Editor 2007 when he released his first song entitled “The More”. I Won’t Complain - Rev. Paul Jones From there, he released two , Center of my Joy - Richard Smallwood With many gospel artists on the “Stretching Out” in 2010 and “The rise, Travis Greene has renowned Hill” in 2015. God’s Got a Blessing - Normans Hutchins himself as a inspirational trailblazer. Over the course of his musical Growing up, Greene was constantly career, Greene has been nominated for surrounded by the touch of God. many awards. “Gospel music was like oxygen At the 2017 Stellar Gospel Music in our house, always part of my ,” Awards, Greene won in seven key said Greene. categories. Song of the Year, Male At a very early age, Greene’s life Vocalist of the Year, CD of the Year, represents a testimony. Coming into Contemporary Male Vocalist of the this world, Greene was still-born and Year, Contemporary CD of the Year, was declared dead. With a praying Recorded Music Packaging of the Year mother in his corner, Charleather and Praise and Worship CD of the Greene called on God and brought her Year. baby back to life. Greene has been nominated for God continued to watch over 13 , 3 Dove Awards, NEW-SCHOOL PRAISE Greene’s life at the age of 4. 2 Billboard Music Award and a Soul Greene fell four stories from his Train Award. In 2016, Billboard named family’s apartment window and was him “Gospel Airplay Artist of the pronounced dead. However, God had Year.” I’ll Find You - & other plans for this young boy. As Greene continues to make a huge I’m Getting Ready - & These events changed Greene’s impact in the society, he wants people life for the better. “It was God’s way to take away one thing from his music. Intentional - Travis Greene of giving me an escape from tragedy “I simply want music to be my Yes You Can - and crisis. I turned to the keyboard vehicle to inspire people and make Perfect People - instead of to drugs and the streets. Any them feel right about choosing God. instrument I put my hands on I was I want to use these opportunities Gotta Have You - Jonathon McReynolds able to play,” Greene said. to encourage people, and maybe in Give Me - Kirk Franklin and Mali Music At the age of 18, Greene began the process help redefine the way his ministry with his mother’s prison Christianity looks in our contemporary This Place - Tamela Mann ministry in . culture and reveal God in a different Best Praise - Myron Butter & Levi “This is where I sung the music way. Joy - Vashawn Mitchell I wrote for the first time, and where I’m really excited to raise up the I preached for the first time at 18,” next wave of worshipers and those Greene said. called to share the love of God through As Greene grew into a man of God, music. I want to be part of helping he evolved into a popular American carry the torch into the .” gospel musician as well as a pastor. For more information about Travis “It was God’s way of giving me Greene and his music career, please an escape from tragedy and crisis. I check out his website below. turned to the keyboard instead of to http://www.travisgreene.net/ drugs and the streets. Any instrument I put my hands on I was able to play,” Greene said. LESLEGSS The A&T Register | ncatregister.com | Wednesday, October 31, 2018 What maes the music

Trumet The is an instrument that is commonly discussed in the Bible, as well as studied. The trumpet originally started as a signaling device and has since evolved into rums a major part of and music. The twentieth century allowed for the trumpet to really shine while rums are one of the oldest instruments created; “” emerged and allowed for more opportunity they were formed when humans realized they for instruments of peculiar sounds to shine. Artist like Cello could keep a rhythm. Majority of drums are made Louis Armstrong, and . from animal skins and open-ended cylinders. These The cello stemmed from the violin instruments have been known to come from the family and was originally called the Neolithic era and cultures within China, Israel and bass violin. This instrument is highly Egypt. Now artist like uestlove, Art laey and used in the genre of blues. Modern- enny ravit have made their instrument into day cellist, terling lliott is a young something that has changed the culture around Black musician that has continued Black music. to provide representation for other Black cellists.

ano The banjo is an instrument brought to armonica the Americans when the Europeans The harmonica is an instrument that enslaved Africans. This instrument is was rst made in China, with the name associated with folk, country, blues aohone “Shenga” because the instrument was and bluegrass music. The banjo has made of bamboo reeds. In the 19th now become a staple of American The saxophone is a century, Europeans reconstructed that music while the history of it’s origins the instrument with metal pieces. have been neglected to be taught in was invented in Belgian by When the harmonica nally made Adolphe Sax. This instrument the genres that it is used in, but Black it to America, it was a very popular musicians, like Danny Barker, James is often used in musical instrument for blues musicians, like genres like jazz, classical and A. Bland and Rhiannon Giddens have John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson. worked diligently to keep the real his- marching bands. The sax has Quickly after became a major transformed jazz by creating tory of the banjo alive while proving city for blues, artist WLittle Walter rose representation for the instrument. famous musicians like John to the occasion and was named as Coltrane, and one of the greatest blues harmonica ALEXIS WRAY . players to ever live. Editor-in-Chief

Blues/BlueGrass combines a variety of traditions into it’s own unique and distinct sound. From Africana to Applachia, The Thrill is Gone - B.B. King Bluegrass uses instruments Woring an - Otis Rush such as the ddle, ve-string To tes orard - Kirk Fletcher banjo and harmonica to tell the stories of the everyday working annish oy - many in rural areas. obody nos ou When oure on Black Americans made and Out- Blues/Bluegrass their own River - by combining the Western ot- Tiny Bradshaw European tradition with American Jazz during the early ound og - Big Mama Thornton 20th century.

ad ad es - Leon Bridges ITOR oo o ove - The Monotones BRITTANY VAN PELT Digital Media Director The A&T Register | ncatregister.com | Wednesday, October 31, 2018 The a legends ZILA SANCHEZ Jazzy when Managing Editor ue llington 181 needed llington was born in Washington, lue in Green .C. and was based in New Miles Davis ork City. He gained a national On The unny ide o The treet profi le through his orchestra’s Dizzy Gillespie appearances at the in In a sentimental ood . In the , his orchestra toured in Europe. He often ont orget About e referred to his music as part of the Noname more general category of American ream A ittle ream o e Music, though he is considered a pivotal fi gure of jazz music. What a Wonderul World Louis Armstrong illie oliday 111 0 egrees YazminLacey Holiday, also known as Lady ay, ou Go To y ead had infl uence in jazz and pop music. Dianne Reeves She started her career in Harlem, ummertime where she was discovered and signed Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong to Brunswick Records in 1935. hine it Throughout the 1930s and , Medeski, Martin and Wood Holiday had mainstream success on labels such as and . Her fi nal , “Lady in Satin,” was released in 1958. Holiday died of cirrhosis in 1959. lla itgerald 111 Fitzgerald was sometimes referred The started in early to as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz and Lady Ella. She . Jazz is a genre of music appeared in movies and as a guest initiated by African-Americans on popular television shows in the of in the early second half of the 20th century. Her musical collaborations with Louis 20th century. According to Armstrong, ,and Jazz in America, jazz is said The Ink Spots were some of her most notable acts outside of her to be a union of African and solo career. European music. of jazz developed from blues ouis Armstrong 10111 and ragtime. Artists including Armstrong was born and raised in Buddy Bolden, Nick LaRocca New Orleans. He was a foundational infl uence in jazz, shifting the and Louis Armstrong were focus of the music from collective prominent in the Jazz Age. to solo performance. His artistry and personality allowed ITOR him access to the upper sections of ELAIJAH GIBBS JONES American society which was then theYARD Editor highly restricted for Black men. 6 WyqwG THE HISTORY OF RAP MUSIC TURNS IT UP A NOTCH

Akilah Kafele music and you had ‘Organized were already topping songs. Lead Reporter Noize,’” said rapper T.I. in a about drugs, dealing, pimping Trap music is no longer just 2012 interview with Power 105’s and using the word “trap” before about what is being said in the Angie Martinez. it anyone truly knew what it lyrics, but also about the type of The beauty of “There was no such thing as meant in the music industry beat notation being used. comes from its versatility of trap music,” he said. “I created However, T.I. was the first Artists like , Future artists, sounds and sub genres. that. I coined the term. It was to actually label this new genre and Designer are usually in the Hip Hop can include more my second album, ‘’ of music as “trap music” and discussions in which people conscious lyrics, focus strictly other popular rappers argue rappers are beginning to on beats or even create the followed suit. sound the same. newest dance craze. This paved the way for This is due to the use of triplet One of hip hop’s most artists today to be honest and rhythms in music. popular sub genres, trap, is a unapologetic about life in the “These types of rhythms are at combination of kick drums, While it is possible streets through their music the foundation of where hip hop high hats and catchy lyrics that for rapperd to have without consequences. culture came from in the first describe the realities of street In the mid-to-early the place: african rhythms. So that’s life without censorship. success with minimal Billboard’s Top 200 were filled just as old as the equator,” said Before the 1990s, trap - effort and without with trap songs like “Rubber Castille in a Vox video. short for “” - was lyrical meaning in Man,” “Hard in the Paint,” While it is possible for just another word to describe ‘Trap House 3.” They quickly rapperd to have success with the old houses or street trap subgenre, trap began to gain popularity all over minimal effort in the trap music locations where drug dealers music will always the world. subgenre and without lyrical operated. hold an important Even non hip hop artists meaning, trap music will always The term originated in realized there was money to be hold an important part of music Atlanta and quickly hit the part of music history made in trap music. Singers like history in its hands for years to mainstream media after in its hands for years connected with Juicy come. producers such as Mannie to come. J in the studio. Its influence on artists at Fresh, Shawty Redd, Also, added T.I., all levels and in all genres and DJ Paul linked with artist Too $hort and to a song in today’s music industry is like , Young during the mid 2000s. unprecedented. and . Today, trap music artists are “Trap music is the modern There’s been some debate [which] dropped in 2003. After continuing to top the charts therapy. In our culture we use over the sub genre’s origin, but that, there was an entire new in all categories. The Migos’ music to conquer our problems artists like T.I., Gucci Mane, genre of music created.” “Culture” hit No. 1 on the and help people understand the and Young Jeezy are usually Although trap music hadn’t Billboard Top 200 for weeks in struggle and realize everything in the attached in some way to been defined yet, long before a row, and it’s not surprising will be alright,” said Deamonte the discussions had. T.I.’s debut of “Trap Muzik,” to see rappers like Lil Baby, Gibson, senior mechanical “Before I came in the game, rappers in the early 90s such as , Kodak Black, Future and engineering student. it was , , Goodie UGK, 8Ball, Ghetto Mafia and with frequent chart- Mob... so you had RAP ‘N’

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$ billion, according to the taking the industry by storm “Look Out Below” - Nova PAYISTS Forbes. with his song, “Mo Bamba.” The “On Me” - Mullato Pop culture revolves around hit song is currently No. 2 on “Splash” - Young Lyric hip hop and with music moguls the Billboard 100 list. like Jay-Z investing in sports “The song was three years in “Lit” - That Girl Lay Lay franchises it brings a revenue to the making we knew it would “Geeked” - Bhad Bhadie both industries. blow up one day,” said Orlando “Pretty Gang” - Supa Peach Jay-Z opened Magic rookie Mohamed Bamba Sports in 2013. Roc Nation on MTV. “Ion Like” - Nia Kay Sports elevates athletes’ Music in a whole, has likely careers on and off the fi eld infl uenced sports whether it is through endorsement deals, being played during the game or before. yW OOLL The A&T Register | ncatregister.com | Wednesday, October 31, 2018 lac musicians recognied or roc PEYTON FORTE to rap to women instead of rapping Contributor about them. He wasn’t afraid to let fans know that he needed love and The 2019 shortlist of nominees for that “Mama Said Knock You Out.” the Rock Roll Hall of Fame include is most likely to make a number of notable names such as it into the HOF. Janet Jackson, LL Cool J, and Chaka The “” singer Khan. brought a level of entertainment and Traditionally, less than six of raciness to live performances and the 15 nominees will actually get music videos that no one has ever nominated. done. Artists are eligible to be Her iconic choreography and nominated 25 years after their eff ortless risqué intonation had a fi rst recording and nominations way of bringing together fans of are decided by over 1,000 artists, all demographics and was in sharp historians, and other respected contrast to her more innocent roles fi gures in music. in sitcoms Good Times and Diff ’rent The public then goes on to Strokes. rockhall.com to cast their vote for up Jackson and LL Cool J have both to fi ve artists at a time. paid their dues to the music industry Black artists have had a hand in and deserve to be nominated into the advancing the genre of rock since its HOF. beginnings, but it has always been Tribune es ervice the experts who vote on the primarily white faces who are at the Host LL Cool J greets the crowd at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards on Monday, Feb. nominees wish for the HOF to be a forefront of rock music popularity. 15, 2016, at the Staples Center in . more accurate representation of the You do a quick Google search of artists who’ve provided the most “rock music”, the results features an inductees. would be one of only seven rappers infl uence, they should consider abundance of white artists and Jimi Take LL Cool J, for example. The to make the cut. OutKast, A Tribe Called uest, Hendrix. Grammy-winning rapper and fi rst LL Cool J is well-known for Whitney and . The Rock Roll HOF has hip-hop artist to receive a Kennedy being the fi rst male sex symbol in The conventional standards of historically been a showcase of white Center Honor for contributions to hip-hop, and this distinction has rock music are more antiquated than musicians, and, despite eff orts to performance art has been nominated had a tremendous eff ect on his ever, and black artists have earned diversify the nominee pool, there for the Rock & Roll HOF fi ve times. revolutionization of music. the right to be at the forefront of the has been little impact on the pool of According to , The boom-box-wielding, Kangol- genre. if he were to be inducted, LL Cool J wearing ueens product preferred

Many people in the predominate culture don’t know that blues, gospel, and The Right to Rock were the beginning roots for rock ‘n’ roll. Rock ‘n’ roll found it’s beginning during the Great Im a an Migration-- when many Blacks left the South for the North during the early 20th century. ohnny . Goode The more imminent roots of lay in what was known as the “race music” of rhythm enny enny and blues during the forties and fties. How- ever, even though rock and roll were started Purle ae and crafted within the Black community, artists like stole songs from lesser known Whats ove Got to o ith it Black artists and sold it as their own. It didn’t take long for rock and roll to be marketed as Are ou Gonna Go y Way a White genre. This didn’t stop determined art- Lenny Kravitz ists like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jimi Hendrix annish oy and Bo Diddley who changed the culture when Muddy Waters they brought Black faces to the predominately The Thrill Is Gone White genre. B.B. King Aint That A hame ITOR BRITTANY VAN PELT Digital Media Director ove On Curtis May eld

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recall watching it heroine is an introverted Harlem with family during schoolteacher that has never been the holidays, huddled south of 125th Street. Emerald City around the TV and is a slick urban core brimming with the tunes. temptations, and the Winkies are, in What was eff ect, the poor working class stuck revolutionary about it, fi rst under the thumb of a slave-driving in the original Broadway tyrant. production and then amplifi ed “The Wiz” is foremost a story of by Jones’ work on the splashy fi lm racial liberation, and an early piece version, was its songbook. of Afro-futurism the combination “Grease” had arrived to big of science fi ction, fantasy, magic Forty screens months earlier, as did realism and ancient African tradition years after “Thank God It’s Friday” (which, that critiques historical events or its original like “The Wiz,” was a envisions a black future, inspiring release, production), but both pulled from such recent groundbreaking fi lms as no fi lm has the world of and were tailored “Get Out” and “Black Panther” but uniquely toward white audiences. what has cemented its cult status defi ned black “The Wiz,” however, weaved is the music and movement seen culture and together gospel, blues, soul and R&B onscreen. shaped the _ genres that are unequivocally black Its dance numbers incorporated framework of a creations _ and were narratives of traditional movement from the musical genre the black experience, an especially African diaspora with ballet, jazz quite like “The bold move given Hollywood’s and modern movement that has Wiz.” monochromatic palette. defi ned black dance the “Emerald An It bombed upon its release on City Sequence” alone has informed adaptation of the Oct. 24, 1978 (it cost more than it everything from the black queer groundbreaking earned, and critics dismissed it as ballroom scene to Beyonce, and the Broadway musical a saccharine imitation of its stage music has shaped R&B for decades. itself a retelling of predecessor), but that didn’t matter The original production launched L. Frank Baum’s to audience members who were the formidable Stephanie Mills (the classic 1900 seeing themselves refl ected on screen original Dorothy, she lost the fi lm children’s fantasy in ways they hadn’t before. role after Ross pulled a power play “The Wonderful with the studio) to R&B stardom. It Wizard of ” o it all started was the fi rst time Jones collaborated that became the To understand its power, let’s with Jackson, then a 19-year-old beloved Judy rewind to 1972. It was then that looking to break away from the Garland movie New York Ken Harper, Motown sound. “Off the Wall” was _ the Sidney inspired by the dominance of the released 10 months after “The Wiz,” Lumet-directed Motown sound, imagined a take of the album inspired by Jackson’s time fi lm had a Baum’s epic fantasy that distilled the in New York frequenting Studio 54 rapturous tale through a black lens. and getting exposed to percolating soundtrack He got the backing of Fox _ in hip-hop scene during downtime from produced by exchange for fi rst option for fi lm fi lming. Quincy Jones, rights, publishing rights and album When made a cast that rights _ and in 1974 “The Wiz: The her television debut in 1983 on “The included Diana Super Soul Musical ‘Wonderful Merv Griffi n Show,” she sang the Ross, Michael Wizard of Oz’ “ opened in Baltimore, musical’s soaring number “Home” Jackson, Lena before hitting Broadway the her mother, gospel legend Cissy Horne, Nipsey following year. Houston, has an uncredited role in Russell, Mabel King “The Wiz” weathered a ballooning the fi lm and the internet is rife with and budget, mixed reviews, technical a litany of talents covering the song and an aesthetic fi rmly hiccups, sluggish ticket sales and the when they were young, most notably rooted in black culture. constant threat of closure to become and Beyonce, who For a generation of a sensation that earned seven Tony kicked off her provocative Coachella black Americans, this Awards, including best musical, and performance with a wink to “The was the fi rst time they saw a multimillion-dollar adaptation Wiz” (those opening horns are people who spoke, sung and from Motown and Universal, who lifted right from the “Emerald City moved the way they did in a grabbed the rights from Fox. Sequence,” a defi nitive performance Broadway production and, Both the stage and fi lm in the fi lm). later, a big-screen musical, productions of “The Wiz” have a Beyonce and Sullivan like this and it has become a kind of theme: the perseverance of writer are part of a generation not rite of passage for the black the black American dream despite yet alive when “The Wiz” originally community. mighty odds. But where the original debuted. It was a cornerstone of Everyone remembers their fi rst stage production uses Dorothy’s our parents’ teenage years in which iana Ross layed the role o time experiencing “The Wiz.” If it’s journey home from the Land of Oz they were seeing expressions of orothy in The Wi. the stage production, that likely came to explore slavery, emancipation, the themselves through a wave of from performing it in high school great migration and faith, the fi lm blaxploitation fi lms, and has been or seeing a touring troupe tackle it, updates it to a post-civil rights era. a defi nitive experience for black but the fi lm is the most accessible Rural, turn-of-the-century theater kids for decades now. entry into the all-black retelling Kansas in Baum’s version became of “The Wizard of Oz.” Many of us contemporary Harlem. 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International “World” Music originated in the early 1980s when Britian and North America promoters began to promote music from other countries, most speci cally African music. The term “international” was adopted to characterize non-English recordings released in Britian and North America. Key international musicians are , Jason Derulo and Wiki who have touched various audiences and have in uenced di erent cultures, as well as their own. HISTORY

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