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

You can’t study the history of popular music without familiarizing yourself with the best Black singers from the 50s. In fact, you might be surprised just how many music genres can trace their ...

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 ...

In the 1950s, 303 researchers travelled through Poland and gathered over 46,000 recordings of folk music. It was one of the largest campaigns of its kind in Poland. It’s 1934. Two young ...

To properly acknowledge Elvis Presley is to properly acknowledge the Black musical sources that went into his sheer ...