With the ascent of the radio, popular music became an important cultural phenomenon for the masses throughout the world.

Omarion has released the official "For War" music video and his dancing, of course, is centerstage. He starts the video by taking a sip of what seems to be Hennessy, before showing off his moves in ...

When war broke out in Europe in early August of 1914, that month’s edition of The Etude, America’s “Journal of the Musician, the Music Student and all Music Lovers,” had already appeared. The editor, ...

On Instrument of War: Music and the Making of America’s Soldiers, by David Suisman. Suisman’s is an uncomplicated narrative that begins in the Civil War, when military music still served purely ...

The association of song with war is hardly new. Armies have enlisted musicians for centuries, to establish marching cadences, signal charges, or to commemorate a special event. Popular music, too, has ...