African American & African Diaspora Studies

Dr. Woods shares thoughts on Prince’s legacy

Posted on April 22, 2016

AADS professor, Dr. Frank Woods, shared his perspectives about Prince’s music and legacy in an AADS blog post entitled Love Live the “Prince”

“Today I learned, shockingly, that Prince passed. Ironically, I had just talked about him in my music class as one of the true successors to the black rock style created by Jimi Hendrix. But more than that, Prince was uniquely original and he pushed what began in the early stages of his career as pure funk into a synthesis of musical genres that often defied description yet, through his genius, became instantly recognizable and appealing. …”

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