Ninety-five years ago today, the songwriter behind some of the most important country songs of the 20th century was born.

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.

'Border radio' refers to the unregulated American radio industry in Mexico in the 1930s to 1980s. The radio stations helped popularize cross-border country music in both America and Mexico. Bands like ...

Florence Price wrote her Second String Quartet in the 1930s, using the sound of classical Europe to tell an unmistakably ...

"The Latin American centennial celebrations of independence (ca. 1909–1925) constituted a key moment in the consolidation of national symbols and emblems while also producing a renewed focus on ...