What you might not know is that Black musicians were relegated to their own separate Billboard chart up until the 1940s, called “race records.” The same kinds of music, when marketed to white ...

Black artists have long been a part of the country ... the background of an industry that is stereotypically attributed to white patriotic, conservative and rural communities.

beautiful soul music and sell it to white America as well as the Black people who had created this dazzling new sound. Gordy set certain standards for his artists. They were impeccably clothed ...

London: printed and published by the “Black and White” publishing company, Limited, 34, Bouverie Street and 63, Fleet Street, E.C., 1900 ...