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

Music at the University of Colorado is first mentioned in 1882, during the first decade of the university’s existence. The small body of students requested that the Regents purchase a piano for chapel ...

Jazz critic turned music historian Ted Gioia’s “Music: A Subversive History” is a dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched labor of cultural provocation. In what he has described as a popularized ...

The performance artist Taylor Mac is the feature of a new documentary. When we spoke to him in 2016, he had just completed a 24-hour show covering 24 decades of American popular music. TAYLOR MAC: ...

For most contemporary music consumers, listening to jazz is a historical exercise. Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue is, at the time of writing, still No. 3 on Billboard's Jazz Albums chart 61 years after it ...

Black History Month is about more than honoring the past. It is about recognizing how Black creativity continues to shape ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Division Chief Susan Vita discusses the Library of Congress' Music Division. This lesson provides an overview of the history of American music from ...

Women's History Month, just like all the months and seasons of our lives, seems to have a soundtrack. We honor and celebrate the countless women involved in making the songs that play as we move ...

Music throughout history has been inspired and changed by hackers and makers, and never moreso than in the 20th century. Helen Leigh is one such hacker, who brought a talk to Supercon to give us a ...