Singer-songwriters are taking up the protest torch like their forebears Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, criticising Donald Trump and honouring Minneapolis victims.

American singer-songwriters are taking up the protest torch like their forebears Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Joan Baez.

Young People's Records was a popular mail-order subscription club in the 1940s, '50s and '60s. Here & Now 's Scott Tong talks with Smithsonian Folkways director and curator Maureen Loughran about why ...

When Joe Ritchie thinks of his childhood in public housing in Cohoes, New York, he thinks of black dust. As a kid, Ritchie remembers playing on his neighborhood playground and watching dark dust ...

In the midst of January cold and the brutish tactics of federal immigration agents in Minnesota, hundreds and hundreds of ...

John Mellencamp does. The 74-year-old rocker revealed Jan. 14 that he'll embark on a 19-date run of U.S. amphitheaters this ...

Ahead of his Palm Springs show, the “American Pie” songwriter reflects on six decades of music, creative independence and why ...

If you’ve never heard of the Hollywood Ten, don’t feel bad. Unless you’re in your late 80s, you’d have to be a huge fan of classic film history or know something of mid-20th-century American politics ...

The House will look to pass this year's final tranche of spending bills on Thursday, an effort that is being complicated by ...

Patty devoted herself to many community services - reading to children with polio at Mary Hitchcock hospital, volunteering at ...