From reggae and soca to merengue and bouyon, here’s how these musical genres have shaped the region’s culture and influenced ...

Music criticism has a complicated relationship with the new. When a genre arrives with unfamiliar sounds, strange social ...

What makes a music genre truly popular is more layered than it seems. Is it the number of times a song gets streamed on a lazy Sunday afternoon? The way it dominates charts across continents? Or maybe ...

Hip-hop, which emerged from the streets of New York City in the late 1970s, has grown into a global cultural phenomenon. Its influence extends far beyond its own genre, permeating various musical ...

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 ...

Whether you’re listening to Patti Smith’s cover of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” or versions of Jethro Tull’s “Locomotive Breath,” it’s not all that uncommon to hear fiddle, especially in later versions ...

Liking certain things or styles is an important aspect of peoples' identities and social lives. Tastes can influence the ways humans act and judge. How to best describe musical taste reliably is—due ...

Throughout her extraordinary career, Brenda Lee has transcended genre boundaries and solidified her place as one of the most versatile female artists of the 20th century. Singer-songwriter Jackie ...