Sister Rosetta Tharpe was buried in an unmarked grave, but now she’s a YouTube sensation. More than...
Music
The notes and staves we see today didn’t spring fully formed from one person’s mind. Imagine a...
In the great reformer’s eyes, if you didn’t love a rousing tune you deserved only “the music...
Transformed in the 1950s from a sharecropper shack that was built probably in the 1920s, Poor Monkey’s...
A new scene was taking root, composed of bands that combined punk’s politics and attitude with the...
Acoustical science fundamentally transformed the ways that Victorians conceptualized the relations between aesthetics and the body. This...