Before technology made recording music possible, the only place to hear professional melodies was a concert venue. They serve as important mediums for musicians, both amateur and legendary. Even with ...

Earlier this year at the Billboard and NMPA Songwriter Awards show, alternative pop singer Lana Del Rey made an observation about the state of the music industry. “If you can’t already tell by our ...

The Made in America festival will be MIA for another year. The annual music festival founded by Jay-Z has been canceled for 2024, marking the second consecutive year that it will not be held. No ...

American blues musician Aaron 'T-Bone' Walker (1910 - 1975), UK, 3rd March 1965. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)Photo by: Evening Standard / Getty Images The historical ...

Philadelphia's Made in America music festival has been canceled for the second year in a row. Organizers posted on the official social media account that the festival will not take place in 2024.

August 1969 was a very Creedence month. But so were most months back then. Creedence Clearwater Revival, the most popular band in America, were riding the hot streak of all hot streaks, cranking out ...

The bossa nova wave was one of the first significant impacts on jazz since Miles Davis, Claude Thornhill and Gil Evans restored balance between the ensemble and the soloist in the late 1940s. As ...

The very first thing I heard upon landing in D.C. in March 2020 was Donizetti. The Flute Sonata in C, I think. Whatever it was, I took it as a good sign. It was just a standard afternoon selection on ...

American Music was a marginal subfield in the 1960s when he began his research as a student, and then as a faculty member, at the University of Michigan. By William Robin Richard Crawford, a longtime ...

"A bicentennial project: Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Song"; includes recordings from field and commercial sources. Various performers. Program notes, including words of the songs, ...