From iconic albums to genre-defining moments, certain years shaped the landscape of music forever! Join us as we count down the most influential and memorable years that defined pop music across ...

Introduction. They never even knew. What is a popular music genre? ; Music/Identification ; Charting popularity -- Foreign music and the emergence of phonography. Sound recording and new modes of the ...

Every so often, a pop star emerges with an iconic debut album. This is not an easy feat to accomplish; however, when it does happen, it transforms these up-and-coming artists into global superstars.

Introduction: the importance of music to people / Rudolf E. Radocy -- Popular music as politics and protest / Jerome Rodnitzky -- "Blues what I am": blues consciousness and social protest / Fred J.

The Center for Popular Music Studies (CPMS) at Case Western Reserve University is dedicated to advancing scholarship and education in the history and significance of popular music. Through ...

Music and history often coincide with each other in a cause-and-effect relationship. Whether it be that music incites something in history or the other way around, the two are inseparable and heavily ...

Today marks a milestone in pop music history. Forty years ago, on January 23, 1985, Madonna released “Material Girl,” the second single from her groundbreaking album Like a Virgin. The song, with its ...

Madonna is one of the all-time greatest female artists, with some of the top hits of the '80s, '90s and beyond. Madonna Louise Ciccone, aka the Queen of Pop, is one of the most successful musical ...

The veteran journalist Barry Walters’ new book, Mighty Real, is an extensive history of LGBTQ music from 1969 to 2000, spanning from the Velvet Underground to RuPaul. But the work is more than just a ...

Justin Lewis has set out to tell a history of pop music not chronologically, but day by day from 1 January to 31 December, uncovering important – or sometimes delightfully unimportant – things that ...

BEYONCE: (Singing) Girls. Who run the world? Girls, girls. Who run the world? Girls. DETROW: Global newsmakers like Taylor Swift and Beyonce produce record-setting tours. Mary J. Blige, Cher and Big ...