While traveling through the South collecting music for the Library of Congress, ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax ventured onto ...

Melvin Van Peebles, whose low-budget 1971 phenomenon, “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” — an X-rated film about a Black ...

Ipswich Chamber Music Society is going strong and looking to the future, after 100 years of bringing classical sounds to the town ...

And ultimately, A Ghost Is Born is more dynamic and ambitious than a biblical flood metaphor rock album probably could have ...

Avant-garde pioneer John Cage pushed the boundaries of music, but outside of his work, he had a hobby he was equally as ...

Chacon is the first Native American composer to win a Pulitzer Prize. His prize-winning work Voiceless Mass, performed in a ...

There were many Canadian musicians and artists who made an impact at the 2025 Grammys, plus Charlotte Cardin scores a "Feel Good" hit.

Anthony Davis is known worldwide as a composer of orchestral and chamber works. The New York Times has called Davis one of the greatest living composers.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote, “Music is the universal language of mankind.” In a music review written 55 years later, George Bernard Shaw said, “Though music be a universal language, ...