On This Day in Black Music History

On This Day in Music History: Over 2,000 Popular Music Facts Covering Every Day of the Year The dictionary defines trivia as: "matter or things of very slight importance, commonplace, or ordinary." Yet anyone who has ever read anything about a favorite sports star, singer, historic figure or celebrity will find that it is often the "so-called" trivia that makes things...	This Day in Music: An Everyday Record of 10,000 Musical Facts Here's the perfect gift for music fans--a full year's worth of the musical history and happenings from the past 50 years. Based on the massively popular website thisdayinmusic.com, this extraordinary day-by-day diary recounts the musical firsts and lasts, blockbuster albums and c...	The Oldies Music Aptitude Test: Trivia Fun for Armchair Deejays If the SATs measured what Boomers really learned during high school, you'd find "A wop bop a loo bop, a lop bam boom" on the Foreign Language test, the Chemistry exam would be about love songs, and the Grammar quiz would include "Ain't No Woman Like The One I Got." These and many...	The Death of Rhythm and Blues This passionate and provocative book tells the complete story of black music in the last fifty years, and in doing so outlines the perilous position of black culture within white American society. In a fast-paced narrative, Nelson George’s book chronicles the rise and f...	Music Facts and Trivia Did you know that Cass Elliot of the Mamas and Papas died after choking on a ham sandwich?in the same flat where The Who's Keith Moon overdosed? Or that in 1980, George Michael was without a record deal and unemployed; in 1990, he was worth $43 million A brilliant fact-filled col...
Lay It Down Few performers have ever been so inimitable as the Reverend Al Green, so it's no surprise that the starry young collaborators who join him on the superb Lay It Down simply let the man sing in the way he knows best, and make their own contributions fit around his. Despite the pres...	Stomp Out Loud Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: 06/28/2005 Run time: 50 minutes Rating: Nr	Rock Lyrics: 50'S, 60'S, 70's Trivia Quiz Book (Rock Lyrics Trivia Quizbooks) An encyclopedia of rock and roll's most memorable lyrics in question/answer format.	The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States When Jimi Hendrix transfixed the crowds of Woodstock with his gripping version of "The Star Spangled Banner," he was building on a foundation reaching back, in part, to the revolutionary guitar playing of Howlin' Wolf and the other great Chicago bluesmen, and to the Delta blues ...	The Story of Jazz Produced as the title segment to a six-part series, this 90-minute documentary traces the evolution of jazz from its 19th-century origins in New Orleans's Congo Square, where slaves first introduced American listeners to the complex rhythms and earthy textures of African music. ...

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Are you a trivia nut? Or a lover of history? Find out tons of interesting facts from Black Music History and discover its impact on the music of today. You'll probably just want to read through it like a book, but it's set up as a calendar.