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Hallelujah (1929) | Oscar Nominated Black Cast Film

Hallelujah (1929) | Oscar Nominated Black Cast Film

HALLELUJAH is an American musical drama film with an all-African American cast an they sing “negro spirituals.” It presents a relatively non-stereotyped view of African-American life. It was released on August 20, 1929 A sharecropper decides to become a preacher after falling for a vamp from the city. Hallelujah was King Vidor’s first sound film, […]

The Exile (1931) | First Black Feature Sound Film

The Exile (1931) | First Black Feature Sound Film

THE EXILE is a race film that was directed, written, and produced by Oscar Micheaux. The film was Micheaux’s first feature-length sound film and the first feature length African-American sound film. It was based on Micheaux’s 1913 autobiographical novel, The Conquest. The movie is about a young man named Jean (Stanley Morrell) in post-World War […]

Songs Inspired By Bach

Songs Inspired By Bach

🎹 Interested in learning to play the piano? Start your free trial of Skoove today and you’ll be helping out the channel! Thank you 😊 https://www.skoove.com/en#a_aid=davidbennett Bach’s music is an endless source of inspiration for songwriters and composers across the musical spectrum. Sometimes the fact that a song was influenced by Bach is impossible to […]