But what you might not know is that in South Korea, K-pop is being given a run for its money by another style of music topping the charts. A genre with a 100 years of history that's riding a wave ...

Here's a guide to the history of 20 genres that are recognized at the Grammy Awards. We also rounded up some of the discontinued categories.

These genres brought something different, every one of them changed the history of music forever. Pop bridged divides by appealing to a wide range of people, hip-hop magnified voices from the ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Vivian Yoon. Her new podcast K-Pop Dreaming is a personal and historical journey through Korean pop music. When Vivian Yoon was growing up in LA's Koreatown during the ...

From its beginnings in blues and ragtime, American popular music has blended influences and genres. Four recent books explore its enduring appeal.

According to the Afrobeats documentary “Journey of the Beats”, when Nigerian Pop artists like Weird MC in the 90s began borrowing elements from hip hop and this style of music was called Afro ...

A Brief History of Genre at the Grammys. Music is constantly changing, as is how it's classified. The Grammys have tried to keep up, with varying results.