NORTON - The music of the 1930s will be showcased tonight at Wheaton College. Visiting artist Leslie Amper will perform and present a piano recital and lecture titled "Creativity in Hard Times: The ...

The first time Wall Street laid an egg, songwriters went on one of the richest sprees in American history. The 1930s treasure-trove of American music — culled from the country’s every corner: ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Marked by Kristallnacht, the Great Depression and the beginning of World War II, the 1930s were an unquestionably important historical decade. But because of ...

We’ve all heard that the Internet is killing the music industry, just like home taping was supposed to kill it before. As it turns out, accusations that technology would destroy music go all the way ...

Friday evening’s Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra performance in the Bradley Symphony Center felt like a wander back in time. Playing under the baton of music director Ken-David Masur and joined by ...

Most fans know that country music is full of cover songs. In the early days of the genre, it was not uncommon to see multiple artists record versions of the same song within months of one another.

The story of popular music in Penang, the Malaysian island by the Straits of Malacca—from the 1930s to the 1960s—is, as co-authors Paul Augustin and James Lochhead graphically depict, a tremendously ...

The Simpsons are going to MusicVille! The show has released this week’s opening couch gag a few days ahead of its Sunday airtime, and it’s a charming homage to the 1930s Disney cartoon “Music Land,” ...