This webpage offers a sampling of mariachi recordings and an essay on the music's significance and historical background. Explore further with movie clips of live performances.

Can music be propaganda? Torture? How about a tool of manipulation, disorientation, and oppression? “Shift: Music, Meaning, Context” contemplates how music changes in form and interpretation as it ...

Music holds meaning. Sometimes this meaning is personal—we listen to songs that remind us of a memorable time, or we select that one song on the playlist because it gets us into a certain mood or ...