Music criticism has a complicated relationship with the new. When a genre arrives with unfamiliar sounds, strange social ...

From reggae and soca to merengue and bouyon, here’s how these musical genres have shaped the region’s culture and influenced ...

When it comes to certain genres of music, some names are pretty self-explanatory: you can picture what"drum and bass" and "Cajun" might sound like pretty easily (and even if you're off, you're ...

Hip-hop, which emerged from the streets of New York City in the late 1970s, has grown into a global cultural phenomenon. Its influence extends far beyond its own genre, permeating various musical ...

What makes a music genre truly popular is more layered than it seems. Is it the number of times a song gets streamed on a lazy Sunday afternoon? The way it dominates charts across continents? Or maybe ...

A research team from the University of Malaga (Andalusia, Spain) has analyzed how the brain responds to hearing different musical genres and has classified the electrical signals that occur in it by ...