Blues Music is Black History: The Hard Conversation at Hopson Plantation

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Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Radio

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Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Foundation (JDBHPF) is a nonprofit established in 2011, officially becoming a 501 (c) 3 in 2016 to create public programs that raise cultural and ethnic awareness of Black traditional music, traditional art, folklore, oral histories, and the experiences of Black people in the United States. Standing on the foundation of the Blues People's legacy, JDBHPF works to celebrate, preserve, and conserve Blues music and culture while highlighting the many events in American history that have cultivated our communities and musical expressions.

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Blues Music is Black History: The Hard Conversation at Hopson Plantation

Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Radio

1 hour 47 minutes 8 seconds

4 months ago

Blues Music is Black History: The Hard Conversation at Hopson Plantation

What does it mean to speak the truth of the Blues on the very soil where our ancestors were enslaved?

In this live broadcast, Lamont Jack Pearley—traditional Bluesman, folklorist, and founder of the Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Foundation—reflects on being invited to present his original scholarship on Blues Ecology at Hopson Plantation, once home to Blues legend Pinetop Perkins.

As we close out Black Music History Month, this episode holds space for a necessary conversation about land, memory, and music. We'll explore how different landscapes—Mississippi’s cotton fields and Louisiana’s red-light districts—shaped different kinds of Blues, and why where we honor the Blues matters just as much as how we do it.

Through personal reflection, fieldwork excerpts, and live performance, we ask:
Can you celebrate the Blues without honoring the history that created it?

Join us tonight for truth-telling, music, and memory from the Delta to the mic.