For hip-hop, this was expressed through the turntable manipulation pioneered by DJ Kool Herc in 1973, when he extended and looped breakbeats to energize crowds. House music’s innovators turned to the ...
Apple Music commissioned Mannie Fresh, Legatron Prime, DJ Poppa and KLC the Drum Major to make mixes ahead of Super Bowl LIX.
the school has also branched out to add programs in jazz and dance. In addition, the Grammy Award-winning rapper Lupe Fiasco announced on Instagram that he’ll be joining the hip-hop program as a ...
Only a very small number of Black artists have ever built sustained careers in country music — and white male hip-hop artists ...
Rocky Top is home to one of the best mascots and spirit squads in the nation. See how the University of Tennessee fared at the College Cheerleading and Dance Team National Championship.
MBW’s Key Songs In The Life Of… is a series in which we ask influential music industry figures about the tracks that have – ...
Members of UNLV’s Rebel Girls & Company dance team are once again national champions. Competing over the weekend at the Universal Dance Association’s College Nationals, UNLV’s co-ed dance team took ...
Sixty-four years after the premiere of its signature work “Revelations,” Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater ... some of the songs and kind of put them in genres of R&B, hip-hop.
Contributing writer for the Prospect Audrey Zeng reviews a dress rehearsal for eXpressions’ 45th anniversary show “Sapphire,” ...
A festival aimed at amplifying Black music and artists, returns to Charlotte. The annual Black Notes Project will make its ...
Temple University gymnast Kyrstin Johnson posted her floor routine on social media before turning off her phone and closing her eyes to head to bed on Jan. 5. When daylight woke her the next morning, ...