With a song from 1759 as a mile marker, pianist Lara Downes and historian Jill Lepore examine what this land was like just ...

Music shapes us. It defines movements, sparks revolutions, and captures moments that words alone cannot express. Some songs transcend their era and become woven into the national fabric, influencing ...

Songs by Earl Johnson & His Dixie Entertainers (background), Rosa Lee "Moonshine Kate" Carson (foreground, left); and Eva Taylor are part of a newly uploaded collection to UCSB Library's Discography ...

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Here are three songs that hilariously and cleverly spoofed some of the most iconic songs and musicians in music history.

People sang around Christmastime as early as the year 129 A.D. and created Latin hymns for the season by the 4th century, but it wasn’t until the 12th century that folks started singing what we would ...

As the widely accepted story goes, Williams wrote this song as a spoken-word piece before putting it to music to make this mammoth hit. Fellow musicians Mac Wiseman and Bill Monroe said they were ...

American festival season is gearing up for another year of pure sensory overload, and I think it’s safe to say 2026 might just be the wildest one yet. Picture this: desert stages under California ...