(STACKER) — Most experts agree that country music as we know it today originated in the early 20th century in the southern United States, where combinations of Appalachian folk tunes, Black spirituals ...
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In a peak moment of pop monoculture, synthesizers pumped up songs and MTV forever changed how artists were seen. Here’s how — and why. Credit... Supported by By Jon Pareles Forty years ago, the ...
There’s no better way to measure the ephemerality of power than by picking a hallowed institution—any institution, really—and taking a look at the way it was received when it was shiny and new. So as ...