Iran's hard-line president has banned all Western music from the country's state radio and television stations. It's a reminder of the 1979 Islamic revolution, when popular music was outlawed as ...

In a world where mainstream music is often detached from politics or cultural identity, artists like Xiuhtezcatl Martínez offer a powerful alternative. A hip-hop singer/songwriter with Mexica — an ...

Steve Cormier is fond of saying he doesn’t write “ride into the sunset songs.” What Cormier, a veteran Western musician, means is that the cowboy songs he pens are rooted in the life of actual, ...

Thirteen-year-old Phoebe White taught herself to yodel when she was 8. Known as Phoebe the Yodeling Cowgirl, she's won 24 talent competitions and her album is number seven on the Western music chart.

Where did Western music come from? Most historical accounts credit composers with the first formations of simple tunes, which eventually led to “early music” and later classical music and the many ...

Eastern instruments such as the stringed pipa and reeded suona blended with Western orchestral sounds at Jazz at Lincoln ...

SAFE. IT IS WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH. FOR DECADES, THEY HAVE LEFT THEIR MARK IN THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT AND NATIONWIDE. THIS INCLUDES LOUISE MASSEY, MAYBE ONE OF THE FIRST FEMALE COUNTRY AND WESTERN ...

In this final article of the series on India's evolving jazz landscape, we examine the growing role of contemporary Western music education in shaping new generations of musicians. For generations, ...