The New York Philharmonic will conclude the 2018-19 subscription season with Music of Conscience, May 22-June 8, 2019,three weeks of concerts and events exploring the ways in which composers have used ...

The title of this book hearkens back to a fairy tale time that Hip-Hop scholars refer to as the Golden Age. A period when lyricists made their audience think first and dance second, when hemp and ...

In the Song Spotlights section, Andra Day, Noel Paul Stookey and Ziggy Marley discuss socially conscious songs that are close to them. By Paul Grein The Grammy Museum in Los Angeles will present an ...

Mike Russell, from Washington D.C., MFA Kera, from Madagascar and Senegal, and Reinhard Katemann, from Germany, make up the Afro-Soul band Black Heritage. "It's very important to participate in Black ...

Last week, Minnesota Public Radio fired its only Black classical music host for changing up the station's music lineup without permission. Garrett McQueen defends what he did, saying he mixed in works ...

Twenty years after rocker-turned-aid impresario Bob Geldof ushered in an age of pop star social activism, no band embodies the renewed spirit of playing music for a cause better than rock sensation ...

Two days after the death of Al Jarreau, vocalist Dianne Reeves, speaking to Pasatiempo ahead of a Valentine’s Day performance at the Mondavi Center in Davis, California, was expressing her admiration ...