Rap Music Around the World

Rap: Not Just an African American Music Genre Anymore By  B.L. Barbour It’s no longer just the east coast versus the west coast U.S.A.; rap is now performed and produced internationally.  Rap music has been adopted by musical artists from Australia, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Denmark, Egypt, English, Germany, Ghana, Iceland, […]

Mariah Carey

Hope There’s More Number One Hits from Mariah Carey By BL. Barbour Being a true fan of Mariah Carey, I can’t wait until she releases another number one hit.   It’s been ten years since she released her last album.   I follow great female singers almost religiously and I’m impatiently waiting for the next album.  I […]

Rap Hip Hop Music

Hip Hop and Piano By B.L. Barbour Whenever we think of rap, we picture an emcee rhyming and a DJ scratching, beat mixing, matching and juggling.  All these physical actions at the turntable are combined to create a unique background sound for the vocal acrobatics they accompany.    Along with scratching, rap uses music samples from […]

History of the Bass Guitar

It’s all About That Bass:  the Bass Guitar The bass guitar as we know it, is the long necked four to six stringed instrument creating pitches one octave lower than the guitar’s first four strings. They’re the lower pitches of A, E, D  and G. It was invented to mimic the sound of the large […]