Everybody loves the blues in some capacity. This genre of soulful music can be traced back to the 1860s in the Deep South. The origins of the blues started with African-American musicians who created ...

Spotify’s 2024 Loud & Clear report highlighted that genres like K-Pop, amapiano, and Afrobeats now have massive global audiences, yet these classifications no longer hold their traditional boundaries.

A genre is a category of artistic, musical or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form or content. Music genres such as pop, country, rock and folk are used to categorize songs ...

In his new book, "Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres" (Penguin), New Yorker writer and "Sunday Morning" contributor Kelefa Sanneh examines the genres that have dominated popular ...

Music and the frequencies we listen to tend to have a powerful impact on our emotions and mental state. And it’s not only research that proves this. You may have probably experienced the power of ...

Music history is full of interesting phenomena, including many music genres that exploded into popularity, only to die out a few years later. While many of these music genres still exist, they are ...