The term is applied to radically different compositions across more than 1,000 years of history. We need a better definition.

I learned music theory through workshops at New York’s Sing Sing prison. I earned my stripes by singing for boisterous crowds ...

Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a naval captain ordered a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot who died slamming his fighter plane into the American vessel.

Study finds prehistoric hunter-gatherers in South Texas may have crafted musical instruments from human bones.

It was a great music venue as it was," new co-owner Dustin Ward said. "But we wanted to make it more ours and add some of our ...

Bronze Age cymbals found in Oman reveal how music united ancient cultures across trade routes, ceremonies, and rituals.

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Zach Condon, who performs as Beirut, reflects on raw natural beauty and Renaissance arts in his new album A Study of Losses.

On a windswept ridge overlooking the plains of northern Oman, a pair of ancient cymbals lay buried beneath layers of plaster ...

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An unknown tribe of ancient hunter-gatherers that lived on the south Texas coast may have made music using modified human ...

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