Blog Posts tagged as: Music History

Remembering Charlie Watts: a Stones Primer

Elizabeth; Shea Betts

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Now that we've entered music awards season, we realize we're still thinking about Charlie Watts and the greater legacy of the Rolling Stones to music history. Librarians Shea Betts and Elizabeth Willse came together to share some memories as well as a booklist of key works dealing with the musical legacy of Charlie Watts and the Rolling Stones. Elizabeth: I remember being three or four years old and dancing in the living room to the celebratory chords of “Start Me Up.” Dad had been a fan from the band’s early days…

Don't Stop Celebrating Black Music Month

Matthew

The history of Black music in America is essentially the history of American music. From blues, ragtime and gospel, through jazz, soul, rock and roll, funk and reggae, to hip hop, house, techno—not to mention the significant contributions of African-Americans to traditional genres such as musical theater, opera, classical symphony, and choral music—the African diaspora originated and shaped the development of all of the wonderful and diverse music enjoyed here and across the world today. This incredible heritage developed, moreover, despite facing legal and societal injustice and a scandalous…