Sister Rosetta Tharpe – The Ongoing History of Protest Music

Protest Music Hall of Fame 2019 Inductees

December 2, 2019

The final results are in and we now have the list of inductees into the second year of the Protest Music Hall of Fame. I will admit that Hall of Fame could be considered a misnomer. Instead of awarding accolades, it is about building awareness for socially conscious music. As the reach of this website grows, we will be able […]

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Daily Dose of Protest: That’s All – Sister Rosetta Tharpe

April 15, 2018

On April, 14, 2018 Sister Rosetta Tharpe received a long overdue induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as an early influence. Tharpe’s groundbreaking mixture of traditional gospel with distorted electric guitar and powerhouse rhythm and blue vocal delivery was an important part of the DNA of rock music. She started to perform rock & roll before anyone […]

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