Described as one of the hottest music genres around today, Amapiano is taking over the world. To find out more, BBC 1Xtra travelled to its spiritual home, South Africa, to explore the genre's past ...

the top genres parents have banned (spoiler, it's not metal!), how music impacts productivity, the percentage of music fans ...

From Goths to punk rockers, genre can imply a lifestyle as well as a way of simply categorising music. However, in the digital age, around 100,000 new tracks are uploaded to Spotify every day ...

The 1960s was a melting pot of musical innovation, with multiple genres forming, growing and progressing simultaneously in often completely different directions. Funk music started to emerge in ...