Category Archives: Musical Analysis and History

In the Spirit of the Gracious and CompassionateCreator of the Heavens and the Earth African Americans have been saying that the new black music is terrible for over a century. I was born in 1945, my mother was born in 1916, and her father was a trustee and the choirmaster at the New Chapel BaptistContinue reading “This New Black Music Is Terrible Awful Trash”

With the Name of the Gracious and CompassionateCreator of the Heavens and the Earth Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam (“NOI”) for over 40 years, told his followers not to listen to jazz, that jazz was not our music, and that we should listen to European classical music, which our Black Muslim BrothersContinue reading “War Music”