From iconic albums to genre-defining moments, certain years shaped the landscape of music forever! Join us as we count down the most influential and memorable years that defined pop music across ...

Introduction. They never even knew. What is a popular music genre? ; Music/Identification ; Charting popularity -- Foreign music and the emergence of phonography. Sound recording and new modes of the ...

Introduction: the importance of music to people / Rudolf E. Radocy -- Popular music as politics and protest / Jerome Rodnitzky -- "Blues what I am": blues consciousness and social protest / Fred J.

Is this a golden age for books about pop music? It’s certainly a busy one. So many titles have been published in the first half of 2026 that ...

The Center for Popular Music Studies (CPMS) at Case Western Reserve University is dedicated to advancing scholarship and education in the history and significance of popular music. Through ...

Today marks a milestone in pop music history. Forty years ago, on January 23, 1985, Madonna released "Material Girl," the second single from her groundbreaking album Like a Virgin. The song, with its ...

The veteran journalist Barry Walters’ new book, Mighty Real, is an extensive history of LGBTQ music from 1969 to 2000, spanning from the Velvet Underground to RuPaul. But the work is more than just a ...

Madonna is one of the all-time greatest female artists, with some of the top hits of the '80s, '90s and beyond. Madonna Louise Ciccone, aka the Queen of Pop, is one of the most successful musical ...