You can’t study the history of popular music without familiarizing yourself with the best Black singers from the 50s. In fact ...

The 1950s music scene would challenge these simplistic ... like Little Richard didn’t come overnight, and even the most popular Black singers and musicians still had to deal with racism ...

Bill Haley’s barnstorming cover of Big Joe Turner’s US R&B hit, Shake, Rattle and Roll, crash-landed amongst the familiar ...

but a heyday for gentler society piano men — whose focus was playing what others craved — began in the 1950s. That’s when ...

The 1950s have often been revisited in popular culture. Sometimes, it is nostalgic. Sometimes, it is directly opposing the idea that the 1950s were a time to be nostalgic for. Like any decade ...

Dive into Quincy Jones' epic journey, reshaping music and culture over nine decades with unmatched creativity and influence.

Latin and salsa music took off in a big way in the 1950s and ‘60s. Oddly enough, it was thanks in large part to television ..

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 ... had reached the top of the charts with ...

This year's bumper crop of great music books includes titles on Joni MItchell, Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna, the Rolling ...

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