Coming out of the depths of Stalinist influence, the decade’s music featured state-backed songs – quite exotic from today’s perspective – carrying communist messages about work, as well as rebellious ...

You can’t study the history of popular music without familiarizing yourself with the best Black singers from the 50s. In fact ...

Here are the general findings in jazz music: jazz styles such as swing and bebop are very fast in tempo free jazz - a style developed in the 1950s and 60s - involved players in the same ensemble ...

A well-known figure on the jazz circuit in the late 1950s, Shorter is credited with shaping much of 20th Century jazz music. The 12-time Grammy award winner played alongside several greats ...