Teachers can help the origins of jazz and hip-hop come alive for students with resources that highlight these influential ...

Music has never been just entertainment. Throughout decades, certain songs have served as catalysts for political movements, voices for the oppressed, and blueprints for cultural transformation.

With a song from 1759 as a mile marker, pianist Lara Downes and historian Jill Lepore examine what this land was like just before it became the United States.

Thousands of songs representing some of the rarest and most uniquely American music borne from the Jazz Age and the Great Depression would have likely been lost to landfills and faded from memory.