While Varma’s subject matter of female musicians was not new, his choice of materials and style of...
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Brazil met Hollywood on his album with Antônio Carlos Jobim. Recording studios are more than just the...
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...
They back to the 15th century and peaked in popularity at the end of the 19th century,...
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...
When he died in 1921 the singer Enrico Caruso left behind him approximately 290 commercially released recordings,...
After the Civil War, touring groups of black college singers popularized slavery-era songs, giving rise to a...
Traditional narratives of Europe as the center of history and culture and myths of discovery are addressed...
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...
Exploring the significance of the 19th-centurty Welsh singer’s ingenious set of images, which until recently were thought...
Perhaps the hybrid origins of the Burmese piano and sandaya might point a way forward for Myanmar....
Iran’s traditional music carries messages of beauty, joy, sorrow and love to the world. Introduction Weaving through...
The perpetually contemporary Williams, as Ellington famously described her, mastered the language of swing. By Natalie Weiner...
Bessie’s voice was elemental, a force set free from deep inside the world. It was a hot...
The musical changes that took place in the Counter Reformation were changes that set the precedent for...
For the ancient Greeks, music was viewed as quite literally a gift from the gods. By Mark...
How Ella Fitzgerald’s cassette campaign fueled a late-career renaissance. It’s the stuff of legends: an urban legend...
How Billie Holiday learned to sing at the House of the Good Shepherd. To consider a women’s...
She was never apologetic about how essential she thought her music to be. By Jenny Gathright Mary...
How did the Great Migration of African-Americans in the twentieth century affect the development of jazz music...
Harper’s songs were lyrics composed in ancient Egypt to be sung at funeral feasts and inscribed on...
Both during slavery and after, the power structures of American society confined many black women to the...
Sister Rosetta Tharpe was buried in an unmarked grave, but now she’s a YouTube sensation. More than...