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America’s heartland transformed popular music by providing fertile ground for various styles to take root, blossom and cross-pollinate. Explore the history at this greatest hits collection of sites.
Guitar playing. Songwriting. Mick Jagger. His blues heroes. Keith Richards is 80. In 1992, we sat down with him for one of his greatest interviews…
The year 1964 was a remarkable one for music, as it witnessed the emergence of some of the most influential artists and songs of all time.
American' anxieties about the rise of rock 'n' roll nation were exploited by the far right, relating the music’s lyrics, sounds, dances, and subcultures to ubiquitous worries about communism and the developing civil rights movement.
While their motives were more mercenary than musical, American small record label impresarios could hear the barriers falling between the races right before their ears.