Popular Music, Easy listening

When he emerged from the nightclubs of Greenwich Village, Bob Dylan was often identified as a protest singer. As early as 1962, however, Dylan was ...

Who runs the world? The Beyhive knows. From the Destiny's Child 2001 hit single Survivor to her 2019 jam 7/11, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter has confronte...

Who runs the world? The Beyhive knows. From the Destiny's Child 2001 hit single Survivor to her 2019 jam 7/11, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter has confronte...

Chico Buarque comprises a critical appreciation of the self-titled album (1978), which is one of the Brazilian artists most representative. This vi...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'. . . a compelling memoir. Breezy and unpretentious, The Sanest Guy in the Room is a delightful collection of memories,...

Die knapp eineinhalb Jahrzehnte nach 1970 erscheinen im Rückblick als eine Art Sattelzeit der deutschen Popmusik: Fast alle maßgeblichen, zukunftst...

Playwright, composer, actor, director, and producer George M. Cohan looms large in musical theater legend. Remembered today for classic tunes like ...

A son of poor Jamaican immigrants who grew up in Depression-era Harlem, Harry Belafonte became the first black performer to gain artistic control o...

More than 50 years after their breakup, the Beatles are still attracting fans from various generations, all while retaining their original fan base...

Elvis Presley's television debut in January 1956 is often cited as the moment when popular music and television came together. Murray Forman challe...

Fearlessly jump and fall into the world of Taylor Swift with this illustrated appreciation of her music by Swiftian Theory co-founder Satu Hämeenah...

Rida Johnson Young (ca. 1869-1926) was one of the most prolific female playwrights of her time, as well as a lyricist and librettist in the musical...

Evoking the pleasures of music as well as food, the word sabor signifies a rich essence that makes our mouths water or makes our bodies want to mov...

Little Girl Blue is an intimate profile of Karen Carpenter, a girl from a modest Connecticut upbringing who became a Southern California superstar....

The Gerry Mulligan Quartet, founded in Los Angeles in 1952, was widely acclaimed as the first small ensemble in jazz that did not include a chordal...

The Moog synthesizer bent the course of music forever Rolling Stone declared. Bob Moog, the man who did that bending, was a lovable geek with Ein...

The first systematic study to address the character and scope of American popular music in India during British rule. American Popular Music in Br...

Simon Frith has been one of the most important figures in the emergence and subsequent development of popular music studies. From his earliest acad...

In his timely book Music, Style, and Aging, cultural sociologist Andy Bennett explains how people move on from youth and effectively grow older wit...

When the Swedish concert singer Jenny Lind toured the U.S. in 1850, she became the prototype for the modern pop star. Meanwhile, her manager, P.T. ...

Throughout his life, German-Jewish composer Kurt Weill was fascinated by the idea of America. His European works depict America as a Capitalist dys...

That rare thing, an academic study of music that seeks to tie together the strands of the musical text, the industry that produces it, and the audi...

That rare thing, an academic study of music that seeks to tie together the strands of the musical text, the industry that produces it, and the audi...

From the Beatles to Beck, Sinatra to Sam Smith, a parade of era-defining artists have passed through the doors of the Capitol Records Tower, one of...

In the mid-20th century, African musicians took up Cuban music as their own and claimed it as a marker of black Atlantic connections and of cosmopo...

Overturning the inherited belief that popular music is unrefined, Form as Harmony in Rock Music brings the process-based approach of classical theo...