white musicians playing Black music. With distortion and color-coated designs, the essence of their music was hidden and their aesthetics took center stage. The band played its first live show on ...

outsider image sprang from the belief that for a white band to play black music was a transgressive and titillating act. The Rolling Stones themselves were by no means innocent in the construction ...

The Black Pumas' Eric Burton (left) and Adrian Quesada will play The Factory in Deep Ellum on Friday, Dec. 8.(Jody Domingue) An old music-biz adage ... as the band racked up six Grammy nominations ...

Play the USA TODAY ... was their love of punk music, which not many kids at their Oldham County school liked. They wore T-shirts for bands like Germs and Black Flag. White Reaper's punk roots ...

It was obviously a joke aimed at blinkered white ... you play heavy music,” Banchs said. “Fishbone ran into this in the ’90s, where the mainstream didn’t respond well to a Black band ...

Holiday House, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2362-0 In 1936, the Benny Goodman Trio became the first interracial band ... “The stage was hot/ The dancer floor was hotter/ The music was hottest.” ...

Formed in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the late 1970s, National Wake blended punk, funk and reggae, but its most subversive act was bringing together Black and white ... band getting up on stage ...

The Black Dyke Band, one of the oldest brass bands, will appear on the same stage as Supremes legend Diana ... there’s so many different kinds of music like folk or rock, we don’t stand ...

Grambling’s band of all-Black students was ... supplying background music from below an elevated platform. Image After A-list stars began taking center stage in the 1990s, H.B.C.U. bands played ...