In truth, there was relatively little music generating revenue for copyright to protect in early America. That began to change when a 20-year-old Stephen Foster composed “Oh! Susanna” in the late ...

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 ...

Sometimes, we preserve history to avoid its repetition; other times, we do so with the express intent of invoking it stalwartly, a single idea becoming a guide rope, bread-crumbing our unlikely ...

Music has never been just entertainment. Throughout decades, certain songs have served as catalysts for political movements, voices for the oppressed, and blueprints for cultural transformation.

At five years old, Daniel Goldmark started taking piano lessons to learn to play a song he had heard. Years later, in a college music history class, he realized he first heard that song while watching ...

A historical music festival, being held for the first time, has taken inspiration from concerts held 250 years ago. Salisbury Musick has been organised by local musicians with a passion for early ...