Title

Nina Simone

Authors

90.9 WMPG FM

Files

Description

WMPG celebrates the lives of Black men and women throughout the month of February. Nina Simone wanted to become the first African American concert pianist, but she couldn’t afford Juilliard and was denied another music program because of her race. She decided to switch to jazz and blues. In the 1960’s, she wrote songs about Civil Rights issues, becoming one of the strongest voices of the Civil Rights Movement.

Publisher

90.9 WMPG FM

City

Portland, Maine

Keywords

Musician, Jazz, Blues, Black History Month

Disciplines

African American Studies | Africana Studies | African History | American Art and Architecture | American Film Studies | American Literature | American Popular Culture | American Studies | Art and Design | Children's and Young Adult Literature | Contemporary Art | Creative Writing | Cultural History | Digital Humanities | English Language and Literature | Fashion Design | Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Fiction | Film and Media Studies | Film Production | Fine Arts | Hip Hop Studies | History | History of Gender | History of Religion | History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Holocaust and Genocide Studies | Intellectual History | Interdisciplinary Arts and Media | Islamic World and Near East History | Labor History | Latin American History | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies | Literature in English, Anglophone outside British Isles and North America | Literature in English, British Isles | Literature in English, North America | Literature in English, North America, Ethnic and Cultural Minority | Modern Literature | Music | Music Performance | Nonfiction | Oral History | Other American Studies | Other Arts and Humanities | Other English Language and Literature | Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Other Film and Media Studies | Other History | Other History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology | Other Music | Poetry | Political History | Public History | Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies | Radio | Screenwriting | Social History | United States History | Visual Studies | Women's History | Women's Studies

Recommended Citation

90.9 WMPG FM, "Nina Simone" (2020). Black History Month Segments. 24.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/wmpg_bhm/24