Here she explains the importance of music in the Civil Rights Movement. One of the first things that's important when you think about freedom songs and the Civil Rights Movement is to not actually ...

To mark Soul Music's exploration of Songs of the Civil Rights Movement and Sam Cooke's A Change Is Gonna Come, BBC 6 Music's Craig Charles picks ten of his favourite pivotal protest songs.

Exploring the origins of reggae and how one song shot the genre into the global spotlight. A journey that includes The ...

The feminist movement in pop music during the 1970s was about more than just sexual liberation—it was about redefining the role of women in society and in music. These artists showed that women could ...

Mark Morris' "The Look of Love" dresses 10 dancers in brightly colored costumes and the stage with five chairs and five ...

Synths changed the music game in the 1980s, and the electronic instrument's legacy is still felt in pop music today.

or when they began reminiscing about old memories or stories while listening to a song or thinking about the music. These ...

This song became the anthem of the disco movement and turned the movie into ... just elevate the movie—it became a defining ...

Enslaved people would sing work songs while working the plantations and ... was one of the earliest types of blues music and originated in Mississippi in the Delta. The Delta was particularly ...

including favouring a lot of downstrokes to get the right urgency for the song. When internalising the power behind the music, Chalamet also saw the parallels between the civil rights movement going ...