The 'Freedom Movement' for civil rights was a turning point in history - Martin Luther King Jr said there was one genre of music essential to powering it.

Jazz was a symbol of American freedom, a breath of fresh air and rebellion, and, above all, a forbidden fruit. Today, Falk’s film is perceived as paradoxical. On the one hand, the music is the lead ...

Because of that, her birthday has become almost like a holiday and even the Grand Ole Opry holds a yearly celebration in the ...

Rage Against the Machine celebrated the commutation of Indigenous rights activist Leonard Peltier's life sentence.

A gathering in celebration of the life of Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. Monday afternoon in Rapid City. Dozens turned out for ...

The freedom songs of the folk singers went electric, the coded messages of gospel music burst into the full flower of funk and soul. Even disco promised emancipation,” Bono wrote. “In U2 ...

One of the main topics he focused on was how the need for freedom has been expressed continuously in music. “When we rock stars talk about freedom, we more often mean libertinism than liberation ...

By Jon Winkler What’s the first thing you think of when someone brings up Stony Brook Southampton? It might be the School of ...