Tag: music

Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff, University of South Carolina Music is central to Ken Burns’s new Vietnam War documentary, with an original score accompanied by samples of...

Nick Lehr, The Conversation To commemorate African-American Music Appreciation Month this June, California Senator Kamala Harris released a Spotify playlist with songs spanning genres and...

Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar, University of Connecticut Beginning June 16, moviegoers will be able to see the much-anticipated “All Eyez on Me,” the biopic of...

Adam Gustafson, Pennsylvania State University “The First Lady of Song” Ella Fitzgerald would have turned 100 on April...

Jonathan Wynn, University of Massachusetts Amherst Coachella unofficially kicks off the 2017 U.S. festival season on April 15, and while this year’s event...

Tim McFarlin, Elon University In the days following Chuck Berry’s death, commentators have trampled over each other in a race to honor him...

Could metalcore music be embodying the rage currently displayed in this presidential election?

"It’s pretty clear that the biggest rock bands don’t do as well as the biggest country, pop or hip hop groups. There’s definitely a struggle to maintain a good spirit about the state of rock and roll when you see people who you feel are doing less, maybe lugging less equipment or bring a laptop on stage to run tracks, and they’re the ones making all the big money."