If one were to produce a soundtrack album of the 1980s, most of the tracks would probably be labeled "new wave." Much of what passed for new wave fit well with the overall cultural and political milieu of the 1980s. New wave was the type...

New Wave was a rock music genre that existed during the late 1970s and the early-to-mid 1980s. It emerged from punk rock as a reaction against the popular music of the 1970s and it incorporated various influences such as: the rock 'n roll styles of the...

Stereotypes used to rule country music. Ideally, you were born on a farm like Ernest Tubb, told jokes like Minnie Pearl, drank like Hank Williams, loved train songs like Johnny Cash, worshipped truckers like Red Sovine, reveled in honky-tonks like George Jones, fretted about...

The National Symphony Orchestra gave two premiere performances last night in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall - a risk in Washington, where symphony audiences have a way of walking out on new music. Both the world premiere of Erik Bergman's "Poseidon" and the American...