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stepping razor wrote:1000 GIANTS OF BLACK MUSIC - MARCH 1974: - PART ONE

You could call it a roll of honour. You could call it an encyclopaedia. But our aim is an ambitious one: to present a definition account of the men and women whose sweat and genius has produced the most influential and dynamic music of the 20th century.

One thousand names. Today`s superstars and yesterday`s heroes. The influential greats and the one-hit wonders. The winners and the losers. The survivors and the forgotten ones who died in poverty and despair.

Some of the names here will be familiar to you. Some have never been documented before. Some have earned a shelf-full of gold records. Some have remained unknown while their imitators have grown rich.

All of them deserve a place here. Black music has climbed from the cotton-field to the concert hall. But even today the story of black music is a story not just of platinum records and million-dollar gigs in Las Vegas but of the countless small clubs and bars where musicians sing their hearts out, waiting for that big break.

Whether they created styles or merely followed them, all the people we mention here have played their part in the development of black music. All of them, in their own way, are giants . . .

1000 GIANTS OF BLACK MUSIC - MARCH 1974: - PART ONE
Black Music March 1974: - Vol. 1 / Issue 4
(ALL TAKEN FROM BLACK MUSIC MAGAZINE)

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