Music history is full of interesting phenomena, including many music genres that exploded into popularity, only to die out a ...

Introduction. They never even knew. What is a popular music genre? ; Music/Identification ; Charting popularity -- Foreign music and the emergence of phonography. Sound recording and new modes of the ...

Music criticism has a complicated relationship with the new. When a genre arrives with unfamiliar sounds, strange social ...

If America’s sense of national identity has a soundtrack, surely the sound is Country Music — a commercial genre borne of the myth-making it took to forge America itself: a yarn spun from the threads ...