Music at the University of Colorado is first mentioned in 1882, during the first decade of the university’s existence. The small body of students requested that the Regents purchase a piano for chapel ...

Jazz critic turned music historian Ted Gioia’s “Music: A Subversive History” is a dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched labor of cultural provocation. In what he has described as a popularized ...

Music festivals are nothing new, but the popularity of events like Bonnaroo and Glastonbury has grown even larger in recent years. The alternative, countercultural spirit of festivals has evolved into ...

December 9, 2004 • After World War I, an entire generation of American composers went to Paris initiating a musical exchange of ideas between the U.S. and France. Oddly enough, it was in Paris, ...

For most contemporary music consumers, listening to jazz is a historical exercise. Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue is, at the time of writing, still No. 3 on Billboard's Jazz Albums chart 61 years after it ...

The Bachelor of Music in Music History and Literature provides a rigorous core of courses in the history and literature of Western music and offers opportunities for deeper study in related fields ...

Women's History Month, just like all the months and seasons of our lives, seems to have a soundtrack. We honor and celebrate the countless women involved in making the songs that play as we move ...

Too often, we wait till our favorite artists are gone to tell them how much we love them. Welcome to Wonder Week, a celebration of our finest living musician. Read our introduction to the series.

Democracy of Sound: Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright in the Twentieth Century, by Alex Sayf Cummings, Oxford University Press, 272 pages, $29.95 ...