music

Rage Against the Machine frontman Zack De La Rocha is no stranger to combatting injustice and oppression. Using his massive platform and colossal success, he has created a culture of acceptance for migrants from all walks of life.

Rap and hard rock were two music genres polarizing the music industry back in the 1980’s. MTV and other media platforms wanted to push for something “cleaner” and denounced the two genres as outliers to society. In 1986, Aerosmith and […]

When looking at the impact of cultural fluidity on music, you don’t have to look very far as it is everywhere. Some of the most famous and well known musicians are culturally fluid, or from a different background than most.  […]

In music, cultural mobility is fairly common. Many songs have artists attempting to convey a small piece of another culture through their music. Culture is a very broad topic. According to “United Cultures”: There are countless cultures and subcultures in […]

His name is Tayta Bird. He does a style of music under a genre he created called “futuristic folklore.” Bird takes traditional Peruvian instruments and mixes them into electronic music. He considers himself from Apúrimac, Peru from a town called […]

Robyn Rihanna Fenty, known most commonly to her fans as Rihanna, is a singer, actress, and business woman whose influence can be seen worldwide. As a global superstar, Fenty makes sure to represent her cross-cultural background through her music, fashion […]

In this episode, Doni and Dr. Rhonda continue their chat with Emilio Sasamu Thomas, specifically his musical journey, the foundations of that and what brought him to the place he is now in his career. Sasamu talks about how the […]

In this episode of Negra Como Soy, Doni and Dr. Rhonda continue their chat with Emilio Sasamu Thomas, specifically his musical journey, the foundations of that and what brought him to the place he is now in his career. Sasamu […]