Brass bellowed, cymbals crashed and a snare drum kept time. Then, a choir exploded into an up-tempo march. As the music blared over the loudspeakers of a hearing room, members of parliament looked at ...

Exactly 60 years ago today, on March 11, 1966, a song that was widely embraced at the time was the No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100. While 'The Ballad of the Green Berets' by Staff Sergeant Barry ...

The truth behind Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" couldn't be further than its public perception.

Killer Mike, Travis Scott, T.I. and other artists said James Broadnax was sent to death row in Texas based partly on his artistic expression.

In her new book, Darkology, historian Rhae Lynn Barnes writes about how blackface and minstrel shows became one of the most popular forms of entertainment in 19th- and 20th-century America.

Country Joe McDonald, famed for his anti-Vietnam War anthem 'I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag', died at 84 due to Parkinson's complications.

One of the most unexpected songs of the 1960s hit No. 1 exactly 60 years ago today—and went on to become the biggest hit of ...

This folk song was not only a chance for Woody Guthrie to air his grievances; it was the moment he became a name no one would soon forget.

The UK premiere of a stirring joint concerto by five US artists refashioned patriotic songs, minstrelsy and poetry to present an alternative America built on inclusion It may be 250 years since the ...