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 ...

These lurid paperbacks offer today’s readers a portal to an early, furtive era of queer expression.

foreshadowing the crossover success of many old country singers in the 1950s. Foley’s role as a host on the popular radio show Ozark Jubilee also helped bring country music to a wider audience.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ..