The Blues Narrative: The Children of the Great Migration

🎙️ REPLAY: The Blues Narrative — The Next Chapter of the Slave Narratives Originally aired: Late March Broadcast | 9 PM CST Presented by: Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Foundation In partnership with The African American Folklorist and We The Blues People We are proud to share the full replay of our special broadcast that launched a new chapter in our cultural memory work — The Blues Narrative . This powerful episode explores the lived experiences of the Children of The Great Migration — the Blues People whose lives carry the rhythms of survival, resistance, and Black cultural power in the face of systemic oppression. In this broadcast, you’ll experience: 🎤 First-hand accounts and oral histories from tradition-bearers 🎶 Blues soundscapes that score our shared historical memory 📚 Critical theory grounded in Black ecological, cultural, and musical traditions 🗣️ Reflections on how the Blues functions as both archive and resistance This series is the continuation of the Slave Narratives — a living archive voiced by those who inherited the legacy and forged new paths through song, story, and sound. 📡 Available now to members. Your support helps us preserve, publish, and share the Black oral tradition — rooted in the real lives of our elders, our communities, and our future. 👉🏾 Join us, support the work, and be part of the Blues Narrative.

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The Blues Narrative: The Children of the Great Migration is an episode from Jack Dappa Blues Podcast by Jack Dappa Blues.

This episode is 00:47:34 long.

This episode was published on May 21, 2025.

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