The 1950s saw the birth of rock and roll, but these original songs might have been overshadowed by their covers.

Many of the songs in the 1950s hinted at the simmering racial tension that would later usher in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. The 1950s was a pivotal era in music, laying the groundwork ...

The aforementioned songs became actual hits and are still quite recognisable today. But a lot of 1950s mainstream music enjoyed plenty of airplay not because it was particularly good or popular but ...

Modern songs are simpler now than in the 1950s thanks to three musical revolutions ... The post-war era of music, perhaps best exemplified by Beatlemania, ended in 1975, data show, when the ...

In 1950, they began a campaign called Akcja Zbierania Fokloru ... such as Krzysztof Penderecki and Henryk Mikołaj Górecki began popularising modern music. Song and dance groups performed at mass ...

An African American woman's voice, a child of Southwest Georgia, a voice raised in song, born in the struggle against racism in America during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s ...

Many of the songs in the 1950s hinted at the simmering racial tension that would later usher in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. The 1950s was a pivotal era in music, laying the groundwork for ...