Music
N.W.A., NPR Among This Year’s National Recording Registry Inductees
The latest class of 25 also includes Judy Garland and Vin Scully
Bob Dylan Will (Finally) Collect his Nobel Prize for Literature
But the songwriter won't be delivering a Nobel Lecture at this time
How Chuck Berry’s Cadillac and His Guitar, Maybellene, Came to the Smithsonian
Curator Kevin Strait from the African American History Museum details the day he met the great musician
The First Saxophone Was Made of Wood
The instrument was invented by–you guessed it–Adolphe Sax
Did Catherine Parr Write a Propaganda Song for Henry VIII?
'Gaude gloriosa Dei mater,' purportedly penned by the king’s sixth wife, will be performed in London for the first time in more than 470 years
This Medieval Knight’s Manor Houses Over 350 Mechanical Musical Instruments
From tiny music boxes to the bus-sized Orchestrion, Siegfried’s Mechanical Music Cabinet in Germany's Rhineland is the perfect musical detour
Lou Reed’s Papers Have Found a Home
The vicious Velvet Underground frontman will live on at the New York Public Library
Finding Music Behind Prison Bars
At the Louisiana State Penitentiary and at a maximum-security prison in Malawi, the benefits of music are far-reaching
This Eighteenth-Century Robot Actually Used Breathing to Play the Flute
It was one of a trio of automata that had functions like living creatures
The First Jazz Recording Was Made by a Group of White Guys?
A century ago, a recording of the startlingly novel "Livery Stable Blues" helped launch a new genre
Play Paul Simon's Piano or Croon Into Elvis' Mic at These Seven Historic Recording Studios
Take a tour through Americana music history
The Ballad of the Boombox: What Public Enemy Tells Us About Hip-Hop, Race and Society
Thirty years after Public Enemy's debut album, the group's sonic innovation and powerful activism resonate powerfully today
The Soprano Who Upended Americans' Racist Stereotypes About Who Could Sing Opera
Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield was in many ways the nation's first black pop star
Spool of “Holocaust Songs” Found in Mislabelled Container
The “Henonville Songs” are being heard for the first time in 70 years
WWII Songstress Croons Her Way to Age 100 With a New Album
Dame Vera Lynn "the Forces' Sweetheart" will make the history books with the release
Remembering Paul Robeson, Actor, Sportsman and Leader
Among other things, Robeson transformed one of history’s most famous showtunes into a protest song
One in Five People May Be Able to "Hear" a Flash of Light
Once thought to be a rare condition, some forms of synesthesia may be fairly common
Smithsonian Artifacts and Music Legends Share the Stage in Tonight's Star-Studded Television Program
Notable African-American performing artists commemorate the opening of the National Museum of African American History
Feel the Music—Literally—With Some Help From New Synesthesia Research
How one artist created a show inspired by the neurological experience of synesthesia
A New Documentary Conceived by David Byrne Explores the Wonder of the Color Guard
The dazzling offshoot of the marching band gets its moment in the spotlight
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