Music at the University of Colorado is first mentioned in 1882, during the first decade of the university’s existence. The small body of students requested that the Regents purchase a piano for chapel ...

The performance artist Taylor Mac is the feature of a new documentary. When we spoke to him in 2016, he had just completed a 24-hour show covering 24 decades of American popular music. TAYLOR MAC: ...

For most contemporary music consumers, listening to jazz is a historical exercise. Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue is, at the time of writing, still No. 3 on Billboard's Jazz Albums chart 61 years after it ...

At five years old, Daniel Goldmark started taking piano lessons to learn to play a song he had heard. Years later, in a college music history class, he realized he first heard that song while watching ...

What way do you listen to music? Because, as we all know, it currently exists in multiple recorded formats and has been available on myriad others. Really, since the very first recordings, we've been ...

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Every June since the 1970s, across the United States, musicians, fans and industry professionals celebrate Black Music Month. It’s an opportunity to highlight the contributions of ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Lauretta Charlton MUSIC IS HISTORY By Questlove with Ben Greenman Listening to music is one of ...

I’m never more black than when I talk about country music. By which I mean: I’m never more aware of my blackness than when I’m rambling on about my love of the genre, receiving quizzical looks back.