Honestly, ten years doesn’t seem like much when you’re living through it. A decade passes and you look back thinking ...

Think about the music pumping through your headphones right now. Where did it actually come from? Every beat, every guitar ...

Introduction. They never even knew. What is a popular music genre? ; Music/Identification ; Charting popularity -- Foreign music and the emergence of phonography. Sound recording and new modes of the ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - The hip-hop music genre turned 50 years old on Friday. At the time, music critics called it a fad. Now, it’s one of the top-selling music genres in the world. Currently, ...

Outrage quickly followed after a country music radio station in Oklahoma “initially refused a listener’s request to play” Beyoncé’s new song “Texas Hold ‘Em.” Roger Harris, KYKC’s station manager, ...

We don’t often think about where words come from. We use them every day, never knowing who first uttered them. Take genres, for example. Who was the first person to coin “rock and roll” and who ...

In the music business, you’re only as hot as your next album, but once you get hot, your popularity can skyrocket. As one of the most popular music genres in the world, country music counts some of ...

Everybody loves the blues in some capacity. This genre of soulful music can be traced back to the 1860s in the Deep South. The origins of the blues started with African-American musicians who created ...