you might be surprised just how many music genres can trace their roots back to the profound influence of the seminal Black ...

Modern songs are simpler now than in the 1950s thanks to three musical revolutions that have dumbed down melodies, a study has found. Songs have undoubtedly changed from the Rat Pack era of Frank ...

In the 1950s, 303 researchers travelled through Poland and gathered over 46,000 recordings of folk music. It was one of the largest campaigns of its kind in Poland. It’s 1934. Two young ...

the decade’s music featured state-backed songs – quite exotic from today’s perspective – carrying communist messages about work, as well as rebellious jazz played in smoke-filled cellars hidden from ...

Using clips from several unidentified films of the preceding decade, featuring many well-known stars of the day, this short demonstrates that an endless variety of music to entertain all tastes ...

The first example of a genuine American rock’n’roll record to successfully cross the Atlantic, it opened the floodgates to a type of music which would soon swamp those charts and inspire ...