The Blues. Jazz. Gospel. Soul. R&B. Funk. Rap. So much of the greatest music ever made was born and raised in the American South. Black musicians in the Jim Crow South entertained on the so-called ...

The great folksong revival of the 1940s through 1960s made rural white and African American artists and their music favorites of audiences everywhere. While key figures associated with the American ...

Just because an American-born musician(s) don't find long, consistent commercial or critical success in the United States doesn't mean all hope is lost. There have been plenty of the kind to have ...

(The program repeats on Thursday evening, and will soon be made available for viewing on the Library of Congress YouTube channel.) With the focus trained so sharply on the sounds and textures of ...