Musical instruments, original sheet music, and portraits of musicians preserved in the Smithsonian remind us that American music flourishes within a wide variety of traditions drawn from our ...

An African American woman's voice ... Here she explains the importance of music in the Civil Rights Movement. One of the first things that's important when you think about freedom songs and ...

Both free and enslaved African American people in antebellum America composed and performed music in a wide variety of styles. Like their white counterparts, they listened to and performed the ...

Louis W. Ballard paved the way for a booming generation of artists. But his works have been too little performed and recorded.

Country music has always been on the fringes somewhat...Find three pivotal moments when country music has left its mark on ...

American composer Rain Worthington taps into music as movement. Her violin duo A Dance of Two pulls you in, with flowing turns and subtle energy.

In between was the New York premiere of John Corigliano’s Triathalon, a saxophone concerto that featured soloist Timothy ...

“What an enduring legacy legendary Asian American jazz ... Japanese gagaku court music into his compositions. His powerful bass work propelled many of the movement’s seminal albums.

The first printed music in the United States appeared in 1690, and the AMRC's holdings of published and manuscript American sacred music begin very shortly after. Our roughly two thousand tune books ...