One result was an extraordinary burst of creativity, largely in music. Maple Leaf Rag – Scott Joplin, 1899: Late in the 19 th century, the first generation of African-Americans born after Emancipation came of age. What follows are 12 songs from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s civil rights movement that mark how white America became more progressive by listening to African-Americans.ġ. My new book, On Highway 61: Music, Race And Cultural Freedom, traces this narrative and the roots of American counterculture from its earliest days, and especially through the intersection of music and civil rights.
Whether or not today’s largely white governing class will act on the racial injustices raised by nationwide protests on abusive policing is an open question.īut the pattern of white America listening and learning from communities of color is unmistakable-and goes back further than most people think. For more than a century, white Americans have been drawing on black American culture and the country has been better off for it.
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