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Hitting the High Notes: A Smithsonian Year of Music
Why These Four Banjo-Playing Women Resurrected the Songs of the Enslaved
The new Folkways album “Songs of Our Native Daughters” draws spiritually from slave narratives and other pre-19th-century sources
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Hitting the High Notes: A Smithsonian Year of Music
The show includes more than 130 guitars, drum kits and keyboards, as well as vintage costumes, posters and concert footage
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Playing Skrillex May Help Ward Off Mosquito Bites
The EDM artist’s mix of very high and low frequency beats discourages the insects from biting victims, having sex
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Seventy-Five Years Ago, the Military’s Only All-Black Female Band Battled the War Department and Won
The women of the 404th Armed Service Forces band raised morale and funds for the military, but they had to fight discrimination to do so
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Hitting the High Notes: A Smithsonian Year of Music
How the Music of Hawaiʻi’s Last Ruler Guided the Island’s People Through Crisis
A prolific composer, Queen Liliʻuokalani created some of the most popular Hawaiian tunes and compositions of all time
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Scientists Played Music to Cheese as It Aged. Hip-Hop Produced the Funkiest Flavor
Researchers played nonstop loops of Led Zeppelin, A Tribe Called Quest and Mozart to cheese wheels to find out how sound waves impacted flavor
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The Great Blues Singer Gladys Bentley Broke All the Rules
For the Smithsonian’s Sidedoor podcast, host Haleema Shah tells the story of an unapologetically gay African-American performer in 1920s and 30s
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Meet the Singing Mice of Central America
The vocal critters could help scientists better understand the mechanics of human conversation
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Attention Music Lovers, Here’s Why You Need to Visit Kentucky This Spring
Home to the 144-mile U.S. 23 Country Music Highway, eastern Kentucky has produced more country music stars per capita than any other U.S. region.
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Hitting the High Notes: A Smithsonian Year of Music
Rhiannon Giddens’ 21st-Century Sound Has a Long History
Inspired by long-lost folk melodies, gospel, opera and bluegrass, the electrifying singer and banjo player gives fresh voice to old American traditions
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Hitting the High Notes: A Smithsonian Year of Music
A special report pulling together our coverage of music within the Smithsonian collections and around the world
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Play a Groundhog Day Song on a Continuous Loop
Like Bill Murray, wake up to Groundhog Day everyday with the Smithsonian Folkways’ groundhog playlist
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Aretha Franklin’s Decades-Old Documentary Finally Comes to Theaters in 2019
The 2019 nationwide release, 47 years after it was made, means audiences at last will see the Queen of Soul’s transcendent masterpiece
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Before the ‘Baby Shark’ Song Made the Hot 100, ‘Silly Symphonies’ Were All the Rage
The “musical novelty” series of shorts achieved critical and popular success, too
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Once a Year, Over 27,000 Elvis Fans Flood This Small Australian Town
The Parkes Elvis Festival draws thousands from around the globe each January to celebrate the King’s birthday
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Toto’s ‘Africa’ Will Play Forever—Or at Least Until the Next Windstorm—in the Namib Desert
An art installation is playing an endless loop of the 1982 earworm in an undisclosed location in the desert along Africa’s southwest coast
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No Color Photos of Jazz Singer Mildred Bailey Existed… Until Now
An artist shows us that the past was not black-and-white
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The Titles of These AI-Generated Christmas Carols Are Pure Cinnamon Hollybells
🎶 We wish you a Merry Jinglelog 🎶
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Museum Visitors Can Play This Wall Art Like an Instrument
An artist, musician, experience designer and app developer meet for coffee. This multi-sensory installation is the result
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A Brief History of ‘Silent Night’
The classic Christmas tune was first composed as a poem, and it was set to music for the first time in the winter of 1818
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