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Music of the African Diaspora

Your favorite music probably has Black roots, but over and over again, non-black musicians are the faces and highest earners of genres originated by underpaid and overlooked Black artists.

Map: Jordan Engel. As always, the Decolonial Atlas’ original media can be reused under the Decolonial Media License 0.1.

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Culture in the 21st-Century Music Classroom – Oodles of Music says:

February 26, 2022 at 12:21 pm

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