With the new American music, he used fourths and fifths, like the tunings of guitars or banjos. Using this new, open sound, he wrote haunting melodies that represented the open prairie.

In celebration of Black History Month comes an illustrious new take on the American soundtrack, written by best-selling author Kwame Alexander.

In Received Pronunciation, that R sound isn’t pronounced. Obviously, there aren’t any recordings from the 17th century, so we can’t know for sure what British and American people sounded like.

It’s a uniquely American holiday that was given national status by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 during the Civil War. To get into the spirit of the holiday, we’ll hear hymn songs as well as secular ...

The art of music is solely a practical one. The number of musicians, as well as non-mnsicians, who are acquainted with the cause of sound and music, is but small, therefore a brief dissertation on ...

And well, that’s because it wasn’t, it was pure gibberish made to sound American for the sake of his social experiment. In an interview with NPR, Celantano divulged why exactly he did what he ...