The controversy about Zach Bryan's latest song taps into a half century of political realignment and country's evolution.

On Dec. 2, 1927, in Dallas, the country musicians of the East Texas Serenaders entered a recording studio for the first time. The result was a Columbia 78 featuring the song “Sweetest Flower” backed ...

With its mix of Jewish immigrants, Black residents of Harlem, and privileged white characters, the Broadway show Ragtime is resonating strongly with audiences in the current political climate.

When the first notes of “Ragtime” rise from the orchestra pit at Amarillo Little Theatre, they’ll mark the culmination of a long-held dream for Managing Artistic Director Jason Crespin. “It’s a show ...

As you might imagine, the mainstream country of the 2020s and the mainstream country songs of the 1920s are musically incomparable. Frankly, the metamorphosis that has transpired in the last 100 years ...

Scott Joplin was an early musician who transformed much of the landscape of popular music in the early 1900s. Though many details of his short life are uncertain, his impact on early American music is ...

When one considers popular music today, either streamed, or housed/played digitally on various devices, then traces it back several generations, we find the roots and the sprouting of America’s ...

Scott Joplin was an early musician who transformed much of the landscape of popular music in the early 1900s. Though many details of his short life are uncertain, his impact on early American music is ...

Scott Joplin was an early musician who transformed much of the landscape of popular music in the early 1900s. Though many details of his short life are uncertain, his impact on early American music is ...

Scott Joplin was an early musician who transformed much of the landscape of popular music in the early 1900s. Though many details of his short life are uncertain, his impact on early American music is ...

Scott Joplin (Courtesy of the Miller Nichols Library/Encyclopedia of Arkansas.) Scott Joplin was an early musician who transformed much of the landscape of popular music in the early 1900s. Though ...

In 1903 Santa Cruz didn’t want a boardwalk, for fear it would become low-life amusements, of freak shows, gambling and brothels. But Fred Swanton promised he would make it like a World’s Fair midway ...