Editorial
Genres
Explore defining music genres through their histories, artists, and essential physical releases.
Children’s music: who sang the first song to a child?
The oldest flutes kept no melodies. Follow children’s music through lullabies, playgrounds, television and online video.
Hip-Hop: from a Bronx break to the world
How DJs turned records into instruments, and how artists in many languages kept changing the form.
Pop: many crowns, many centers
How different audiences chose their kings and queens, and what those crowns reveal about pop’s global history.
Reggae history, from Kingston dances to digital riddims
A Jamaican story of public dances, studio craft, political change, and musical reinvention.
