American Idol’s Top 24 hit the stage in Hawaii with epic performances, with a couple daring to sing songs by the judges.

For more than a decade, this appealing brand of swing jazz was the most popular music in America. During the 1940s, jazz gradually parted ways with popular music. A new generation of modern jazz ...

Like their white counterparts, they listened to and performed the songs of Stephen Foster and other popular white composers. Brought to America in captivity and sold into slavery, Africans carried ...

This music festival rewards passionate Global ... Metallica and Doja Cat. Now, America’s Next Top Hitmaker will join the ranks, showcasing their talent on one of the biggest and most impactful ...

The combination of African and European musical elements resulted in new styles of popular American music - including ragtime, blues and jazz.

When we performed his pieces, it was so easy to see how you could ‘get happy’ with that music, in the African American way, and make it swing.” In 1819, Johnson married Helen Appo ...

Think about radio, and what often comes to mind is the crystal clear music and spoken words broadcast by FM stations across America. But radio wasn't always so advanced -- or so popular.