Musicians and music from South Asia have influenced contemporary music for generations, but do the people from a specific culture own that art? Where is the line between appreciation and appropriation ...

Kendra is a writer & cinematographer who has been obsessed with films since she first saw Diva Plavalaguna hit high notes in The Fifth Element. She is drawn to darkness, creating nightmares, and ...

Nancy Galbraith has been publishing her orchestral musical compositions since 1979. But even four-plus decades is a drop in the bucket, compared to the centuries’ worth of classical music written over ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Critic’s Notebook The avant-garde works that emerged from World War II continue to influence how audiences view contemporary music decades later. Credit...Jan Robert Dünnweller ...

The risk of incorporating contemporary pop into the Regency era "Bridgerton" is set in has come with great reward. Other similar shows could benefit from the same approach to their scoring. When ...

Located in New York, the Archive of Contemporary Music (ARC) has a collection of popular music that rivals that of the Library of Congress, housing more than three million recordings. The archive is ...

A manuscript documenting what experts think is the earliest known written example of modern Western music has been discovered – and is up for sale for $80,000. Document enthusiast Nathan Raab, 47, ...

The flute and the human voice are both wind instruments in their own way, each with a beauty that can fill the listener with rapture. It’s appropriate, then, that the soprano/flute duo comprised of ...

Just as contemporary Christian music has been critical in disseminating conservative Christian ideals, Nashville is a key exporter of contemporary Christian music. The story of contemporary Christian ...

He shifted the dial on pop culture: Sly Stone (third from left) and the Family Stone in 1970 - Redferns Sly Stone has died, aged 82. You could say that the music world has lost a giant talent, were it ...