What kind of music do you think about when you think about the Southern U.S.? Your answer might include country music, bluegrass, the blues, or southern rock–but you probably didn’t think of Mexican music! The U.S. South has a growing Latinx community that has brought [...]
Shardé Thomas began learning to play the fife at the knee of her grandfather, the great Otha Turner. Turner was a mid-century musical elder of the North Mississippi hill country. He was one of a handful of rural artists who cut, cured, and blew fifes [...]
James E. Billie (Seminole Tribune) Legends of the Seminole Tribe of Florida have been passed down orally from one person to the next. Sometimes these stories include songs. Seminole legends have traditionally been retold in two languages, i:laponki (Mikasuki) and Muscogee (Creek). They usually have [...]
