From Open Culture: “For sixty years, conventional wisdom has told us that women generally did not perform rock and roll during the 1950s,” writes Leah Branstetter, Ph.D. candidate in musicology at ...

Once upon a time, deep in the heart of Texas, siblings Hulda, Sophia and Grace Quebe all decided to pick up the violin and take lessons together at the behest of their mother, who wanted the girls to ...

The traditional Hollywood Western arguably reached its peak in the 1950s, the decade that saw the release of classics like High Noon, Shane, Rio Bravo, and The Searchers, movies that have entered the ...

I’ve always been a big fan of Nick Spitzer’s “American Routes,” a weekly public radio music show produced in New Orleans that highlights the best of American “roots” music — rockabilly, zydeco, gospel ...