The sound of the banjo was essential to Black community life, and became essential to the evolution of what we know today as bluegrass music and old time ... blended country with blues, jazz ...

The historical significance of Black popular music in American culture is powerful. Even former President Jimmy Carter ...

With the death of John Mayall in July, we lost one of the architects of the '60s blues boom that transformed Britain’s music ...

Country is a broad musical category that includes elements of folk, bluegrass and blues. Love it or hate it, the genre is about as quintessentially American as apple pie. Though white men in ...

Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin It is in this spirit of triumph that Native Son shines a spotlight on 13 Black queer musicians creating music across genres. 36-year-old Los Angeles-based ...

Setting out on the Black Country blues circuit of ... over-produced music on the radio. Trying to start with Charley Patton or Robert Johnson, they’re old recordings, scratchy, hard to listen ...

The 99-year-old Nashville country music institution the Grand Ole Opry is ready to broaden its horizons and embrace new ...

He said ragtime music has been played since the 19th century, and is mostly a combination of syncopated African rhythms and European march music. “It was mostly developed by Black musicians back ...

The Country has only been around as a group since 2008, but the members have been seen for quite some time on the Swedish jazz and music scene. The members have had collaborations with musicians as ...