A much-younger friend asked me the other day what was it that I most missed about the earlier times of my life. I had the ...

To learn more about jazz and its impact, watch The Devil's Music: 1920s Jazz, the final film in the 4-part Culture Shock series.

Delta blues is the foundation for that. When we listen to blues music of the 1920s, it's like looking through a window at the experience people are having at the time. Typically, blues artists ...

As part of the great migration of African Americans from the South to northern cities, some 200,000 African Americans moved ...

The Delta blues, first recorded in the 1920s, was one of the earliest types of blues music and originated in Mississippi in the Delta. The Delta was particularly poverty stricken and the ...

The Great American Songbook Foundation is showcasing Taylor Swift's influence on music history in its exhibit "Jazz Age to ...

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What MasterVoices does is very special. The lush one-night-only production of STRIKE UP THE BAND on 10/28 revived and revised a Gershwin/Kaufman show with a full orchestra, 200-person chorus, dancers ...

Advertising songs had begun to creep into the repertoire of Poland’s most well-loved interwar singers even by the late 1920s. They were often released as Syrena-Electro records or as sheet music, ...

Calvin Coolidge was president, Prohibition was the law of the land, and jazz was the popular music of the day when St.

The music, perfectly timed to the film’s action ... There aren’t many people who know how to play, let alone service and maintain, a 1920s-era theater pipe organ; it’s an art that could ...

Włast became the king of Polish popular culture because he was adept at churning out those stock 1920s and 1930s easy-going hits, which were ever-popular among Polish audiences hungry for ...