"It was a mix of everything that was great about Black culture," a Hofstra professor says of the genre, which burned bright ...

the King of New Jack Swing returns with the sensational new single titled Lay You Down. The long-awaited return of the R&B legend has finally arrived in the form of new music and new product ventures.

He was 66. In Black pop cultural circles, Cooper was known for having coined the phrase “new jack swing” in a 1988 profile for “The Village Voice” on Teddy Riley. The sound would come to define that ...

By Angel Diaz Barry Michael Cooper, the journalist who coined the term “New Jack Swing” to describe the music Teddy Riley was making during the ’80s and wrote the screenplays for influential ...

Barry Michael Cooper, the acclaimed screenwriter best known for his “Harlem trilogy” consisting of the films “New Jack City” (1991), “Sugar Hill” and “Above the Rim” (both 1994), died Wednesday of ...

Prior to his screenwriting success in the 1990s, Cooper was a music critic for The Village Voice between 1980 and 1989. He also penned the piece “Teddy Riley’s New Jack Swing: Harlem Gangsters ...

The piece, writes The Hollywood Reporter, captured “a star on his meteoric rise to the top” and coined the term “new jack swing,” a title that defined the genre of music associated with ...