The singer’s home reflects the rags-to-riches trajectory that epitomizes the American Dream. Yet Presley and his estate were seen as not quite refined enough to reflect true upward mobility.
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In 1984, the album was atop the charts, and Ronald Reagan, running for reelection, told a New Jersey audience that he and the Boss shared the same American dream. Springsteen vehemently disagreed.
The AI train has left the station. Now, guardrails need to be hastily built to keep the technology from running the music industry off the tracks.
The government has been investigating Live Nation Entertainment for years. But a presale ticketing debacle for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour heightened scrutiny from politicians and the public.
Detroit has a rich music tradition and is known for its role in the development of house.
For Brits, ‘Pomp and Circumstance’ evokes nostalgia for a vanished, golden age. But Americans experience it as a stirring sendoff into a hopeful future.
It stands as the crowning achievement of Western classical music.
For some musical artists, TikTok has become a beacon in an otherwise dismal digital streaming landscape.
In the past, adolescents’ musical palettes were dominated by the Top-40 artists, creating a widely shared – if perhaps narrow – repertoire of musical knowledge.
Composer and conductor John Williams has shown for more than 60 years how music can take movies to new heights.
Her new album, ‘Cowboy Carter,’ arrives at a moment when country music’s reputation as overwhelmingly white is finally starting to crack.
The work remains a crowd favorite. But more and more scholars are starting to see ‘Rhapsody’ as a whitewashed version of Harlem’s vibrant Black music scene.
Orbital resonance is kind of like musical harmony, but systems that display it are far more rare than songs with harmonic melodies.
In 1993, Joel sang, ‘These are the last words I have to say.’ What changed?
The new note will be sustained for a relatively ‘brief’ two years.
Lots of factors can influence your music taste, from your age and where you’re from to the personality traits you have.
Sarah Nance uses geologic data and a variety of artistic media to help people think about their place in the landscapes they use and occupy.
An expert on Ukrainian music and folklore explains how holiday traditions celebrate both centuries of culture and present-day resistance.
On the wall of an orphanage in Venice, a musicologist encountered a fresco featuring an aria written for an opera. She’s since embarked on a project to bring this forgotten music back.
Researchers successfully treated diabetes in mice by engineering cells to make insulin in response to the music of Queen.
The famous composer certainly didn’t have haunted houses in mind when he wrote the piece.
Modern music education is giving students more and more opportunities to create their own tracks.
Jim Croce’s brief time in the national spotlight was enough to put a bevy of songs in heavy rotation on radio stations – and on stage in the hands of a lengthy A-list of fellow musicians.
People might go to the movies to escape reality. Yet Barbie and Ariel choose to live in the world their audiences inhabit − and, in doing so, decide to die.
For Buffett, escapism was not merely some fiddling flight of fancy. It acknowledged the brutalities and indignities of everyday life.