The 1950s brings to mind poodle skirts, sock hops, and drive-in movies. I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, and Leave It to Beaver were popular television shows, and Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and ...

The BBC has had a powerful influence on our musical taste, and in this BBC centenary year, Nicholas Kenyon, a former controller of Radio 3 and director of the Proms, delves into the archives to ...

Thirty-five years after singer Connie Converse disappeared, her unusual, tuneful, smart, poignant, personal songs are finally being heard. Converse wrote and sang back in the 1950s, long before ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Musical Quarterly, founded in 1915 by Oscar Sonneck, has long been cited as the premier scholarly musical journal in the United ...

Singer/songwriter Billy Bragg gained fame as a punk rock and folk musician in the 1980s. Now nearing 60, he’s still singing songs of protest and passion, but also singing the gospel of skiffle, a folk ...

The list includes the first major mainstream hit from a Cleveland artist – Screamin' Jay Hawkins' 1956 classic "I Put a Spell On You." The song is one of the Rock Hall's "500 Songs that Shaped Rock ...

Cleo Laine, an English singer who moved easily among musical genres with a dazzling vocal range of almost five octaves and who nurtured a dual career as an actress, performing in musicals and dramatic ...