Music

Sunshine pop, originally known as soft pop and soft rock, emerged from Los Angeles in the mid-to-late 1960s as a studio-centric form of pop music. Characterized by rich harmony vocals, folk-rock influences, and lyrics blending idyllic imagery with melancholic undertones, it became a dominant sound in 1960s television, film, and commerc...

Kenya's culture is a vibrant mosaic shaped by its numerous ethnic communities, Bantu and Nilotic migrations, Swahili trade, and the struggle for independence from British rule. While historically viewed as a collection of diverse traditions, Prof. Olubayi Olubayi suggests a distinct national culture is emerging, borrowing from and reor...

Persian musical instruments, broadly classified into classical, Western, and folk, spread extensively across the Middle East, Caucasus, and Central Asia, reaching Europe and far regions of Asia via ancient trade routes like the Silk Road. This widespread distribution led to significant cultural intermixing, particularly with Arabic and...

Music history, also known as historical musicology, is a specialized field dedicated to studying music from a historical perspective, primarily focusing on the notated "art music" of Western cultures, distinct from ethnomusicology's broader scope. Researchers employ diverse methods like source studies, paleography, and musical analysis...

Japanese jazz, or Japazz, first emerged in the 1910s, introduced by Filipino musicians on transpacific liners, and quickly became popular in dance halls across cities like Osaka and Kobe by the 1920s, with many American jazz lyrics translated into Japanese. Despite being controversially labeled "enemy music" during World War II, its wi...

Hard rock is an aggressive rock music subgenre defined by distorted electric guitars, powerful vocals, and driving rhythms. It emerged in the mid-1960s from garage, psychedelic, and blues rock, with early influential bands including The Kinks, The Who, and The Jimi Hendrix Experience. The genre skyrocketed to major popularity in the 19...

The Pop 100 was a weekly music chart launched by Billboard magazine in February 2005, designed to rank songs based on their mainstream pop appeal. Conceived by Michael Ellis, it combined airplay from Mainstream Top 40 radio stations with physical singles sales and digi...

Franklin Electronic Publishers, originally founded in 1981 as Franklin Computer Corporation, began its journey by manufacturing popular clones of the Apple II computer. This led to a landmark 1982 copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Apple Computer, which Franklin ultimately lost, establishing crucial legal preceden...

The Love & Hip Hop franchise is a highly popular reality television series on VH1, which first premiered on March 6, 2011. It chronicles the personal and professional lives of hip hop and R&B musicians, performers, managers, and producers in major U.S. cities, quickly expanding with successful ...

Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC), founded in 1987 as part of New York City's prestigious Lincoln Center, is a prominent organization dedicated to representing the totality of jazz music through education, performance, and archival efforts globally. Led by artistic director Wynton Marsalis, JALC presents i...

Classical mechanics is a foundational physical theory explaining the motion of objects ranging from projectiles to planets and galaxies. Its initial formulation, known as Newtonian mechanics, stemmed from the 17th-century works of Sir Isaac Newton, along with mathematical contributions...

Musical analysis is the systematic study of musical structure in compositions or performances, aiming to answer "How does it work?" This scholarly approach emerged around the 1750s, though its roots as an auxiliary tool extend back to the Middle Ages. The field encompasses diverse methodologies, from Donald Tovey's accessible ...