Teachers can help the origins of jazz and hip-hop come alive for students with resources that highlight these influential ...

Jazz critic turned music historian Ted Gioia’s “Music: A Subversive History” is a dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched labor of cultural provocation. In what he has described as a popularized ...

Music throughout history has been inspired and changed by hackers and makers, and never moreso than in the 20th century. Helen Leigh is one such hacker, who brought a talk to Supercon to give us a ...

For most contemporary music consumers, listening to jazz is a historical exercise. Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue is, at the time of writing, still No. 3 on Billboard's Jazz Albums chart 61 years after it ...

The performance artist Taylor Mac is the feature of a new documentary. When we spoke to him in 2016, he had just completed a 24-hour show covering 24 decades of American popular music. TAYLOR MAC: ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Division Chief Susan Vita discusses the Library of Congress' Music Division. This lesson provides an overview of the history of American music from ...

At five years old, Daniel Goldmark started taking piano lessons to learn to play a song he had heard. Years later, in a college music history class, he realized he first heard that song while watching ...

Women's History Month, just like all the months and seasons of our lives, seems to have a soundtrack. We honor and celebrate the countless women involved in making the songs that play as we move ...