{"id":16374,"date":"2020-04-15T01:14:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T01:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/?p=16374"},"modified":"2020-04-15T01:15:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T01:15:38","slug":"history-of-african-american-music-appreciation-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/history-of-african-american-music-appreciation-month\/","title":{"rendered":"History of  African-American Music Appreciation Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16375\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"dt-pswp-item\" href=\"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/chavelier-de-saint-georges.jpg\" data-dt-img-description=\"\" data-large_image_width=\"600\" data-large_image_height=\"559\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16375\" class=\"wp-image-16375\" src=\"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/chavelier-de-saint-georges.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/chavelier-de-saint-georges.jpg 600w, https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/chavelier-de-saint-georges-300x280.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16375\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chavelier de Saint Georges<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_16376\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"dt-pswp-item\" href=\"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/william-grant-still-afro.jpg\" data-dt-img-description=\"\" data-large_image_width=\"500\" data-large_image_height=\"519\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16376\" class=\"wp-image-16376 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/william-grant-still-afro.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/william-grant-still-afro.jpg 500w, https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/william-grant-still-afro-289x300.jpg 289w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16376\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Grant Still (May 11, 1895 to Dec. 3,1978)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On June 7, 1979 President Jimmy Carter decreed that June would be<strong> BLACK MUSIC MONTH<\/strong>. However, the official presidential order announcing Black Music Month during the month of June wasn&#8217;t signed off on until 2000 when the House of Representatives approved House Resolution 509. President Barack Obama officially changed the name to African-American Music Appreciation Month in 2009. Please read two blogs written by me published via Africlassical. See pic 1 Chavelier de Saint Georges and pic 2 William Grant Still (May 11, 1895 to 12-3-1978)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/africlassical.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/john-malveaux-african-americans-should.html\">https:\/\/africlassical.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/john-malveaux-african-americans-should.html<\/a><br \/>\nand<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/africlassical.blogspot.com\/2018\/02\/john-malveaux-before-quincy-jones.html\">https:\/\/africlassical.blogspot.com\/2018\/02\/john-malveaux-before-quincy-jones.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; On June 7, 1979 President Jimmy Carter decreed that June would be BLACK MUSIC MONTH. However, the official presidential order announcing Black Music Month during the month of June wasn&#8217;t signed off on until 2000 when the House of Representatives approved House Resolution 509. President Barack Obama officially changed the name to African-American Music&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[327,326,252],"class_list":["post-16374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musicuntold-blog","tag-black-music-month","tag-chavelier-de-saint-georges","tag-william-grant-still","category-97","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16374"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16379,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16374\/revisions\/16379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}