What does the future sound like? In the early 20th century, one answer rang out from Luigi...
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Exploring identities of individuals across four creative domains in the present day: contemporary art, fashion, film, and...
What archaeology tells us about the music and sounds made by Africa’s ancestors. Introduction Music has been...
The music industry has transformed itself by launching several online music streaming platforms like Spotify, Apple Music,...
Inside the Sunset Boulevard building that busted racial barriers. As you listen to Ella Fitzgerald sing “Take...
Typically oral transmission refers to the basic action of passing information, in this case music, through oral...
The music was a multicultural refuge for 1980s L.A. Music always has the potential to be a...
Lakeside left their mark on a Black music renaissance. In 1972, the ten members of the Dayton,...
Texts and images produced throughout the medieval world reveal that harp music could elicit powerful responses. Infernal...
Little Richard honed his craft as a teenage drag queen. We see the influence of gay contemporaries...
The legendary founder of music in Chinese mythology was Ling Lun, who made bamboo pipes tuned to...
Spirituals were created out of the experience of enslaved people in the U.S. They were songs of...
Perhaps the hybrid origins of the Burmese piano and sandaya might point a way forward for Myanmar....
Transformed in the 1950s from a sharecropper shack that was built probably in the 1920s, Poor Monkey’s...
Acoustical science fundamentally transformed the ways that Victorians conceptualized the relations between aesthetics and the body. This...
Examining the important role of music in ancient Greek cult practices. By Dr. Jana Kubatzki Research Associate in...
Detail of A carole: shawms and bagpipes played from the gallery to accompany dancers, including Courtesy and...
Terracotta amphora, c490 BCE. Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Despite a wealth of ancient writings, archaeological...
Music has played a central role in Greek Orthodox services for centuries. Nicolas Bell describes the manuscript...
A choir sings traditional gospel music. Staff Sgt. Bernardo Fuller For the enslaved Africans, music – rhythm in particular – became a tool of communication about their...
Will learning sax make you better at French? Creativity+ Timothy K Hamilton, CC BY-NC-ND Music is what penetrates most...
By Austin Brown (left) and Alex Mensing (right) / 11.30.2017 Brian Eno’s creative activities defy categorization. Widely...
By (left-to-right) Dr. N. Alan Clark, Dr. Thomas Heflin, and Dr. Elizabeth Kramer Clark: Director of...
Carter And King Jazzing Orchestra, 1921 / Wikimedia Commons Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 05.01.2018 Historian...
Initial G: The Assumption of the Virgin, about 1392–1402, Niccolò da Bologna, from the Gradual of Niccolò di...
By Dr. Elizabeth Kramer Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Music History University of West Georgia Introduction and...
This sarcophagus depicts a variety of ancient musical instruments, including the tympanum (drum), flute, and kymbala (cymbals)....
A new Harvard study suggests that people around the globe can identify lullabies, dancing songs, and healing...
Charlie Nguyen/Flickr/Creative Commons By Richard Kunert / 04.20.2016 PhD Candidate Donders Institute Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics...
Lauren C/Flickr/Creative Commons By Princess Ojiaku / 01.14.2016 Adele’s heartbreaking ballad Hello, about a lost lover, has topped the Billboard Hot...