For musicians like Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer, trying to break down doors in the folk and country music scenes has ...

In a new podcast from Rural Remix, reporter Lane Wendell Fischer explores the origins and evolution of country music.

Emily Roberts will also discuss “Queer Reframings of Nostalgia in Bluegrass Lyricism,” during another panel discussion. She is a doctoral candidate at UChicago who studies “ethnomusicology,” according ...

In that time, Giddens' work has illuminated a Black banjo lineage that was long excluded from the official narrative of country music's origins ... been the exclusively white domain it was ...

T-Pain believes Beyoncé’s foray into country ... White performers. Beyoncé’s entry into the space has amplified these discussions, highlighting the often-overlooked Black origins of country ...

For musicians like Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer, trying to break down doors in the folk and country music ... artificially, as white hillbilly music. But that tale of Black string band ...