The British pop duo Wham! was the first Western act of its kind to play mainland China. This documentary reveals the hidden ...

Music history is dotted with records that actually made it out, but the shadow history underneath it is just as compelling. Across rock, pop, soul, and beyond, there's a shadow history of records that ...

Pop songs aren’t often disturbing. But sometimes, a song will make it to the top of the pop charts that boasts a particularly strange or unsettling backstory. Let’s look at a few examples, shall we?

There’s nothing quite like making a good first impression. Here are some pop hits spanning from the 1980s to the 2000s that were artists’ first No. 1 hits. These are all winners in our book.

Today marks a milestone in pop music history. Forty years ago, on January 23, 1985, Madonna released "Material Girl," the second single from her groundbreaking album Like a Virgin. The song, with its ...

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 ...

In a 1998 interview in the New York Times, David Bowie remarked on the prevalence of British musicians who went to art school: You know, 25 years ago there were a whole crop of us that tried to drag ...

Introduction: the importance of music to people / Rudolf E. Radocy -- Popular music as politics and protest / Jerome Rodnitzky -- "Blues what I am": blues consciousness and social protest / Fred J.

There's something magical about those first few words of a song. Before the chorus kicks in, before the bridge takes you somewhere unexpected, there's that initial moment when a lyric hits your ears ...

Pop culture moves fast, but the '90s and 2000s hit differently. Before streaming playlists and algorithm-driven fame, stars dominated our lives in ways today's fans can barely imagine. A redditor ...