The ‘shimauta’ singer on her collabs with Yussef Dayes and bringing the folk melodies of the Amami islands to new audiences ...

A 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet reveals the oldest known trigonometric table, showing ancient scribes used precise triangle ratios.

Researchers prove humans are "musical animals" with a biological blueprint for rhythm and pitch that exists from birth.

Humans are fundamentally "musical animals"—and our capacity for music is rooted in biology, not just culture. This is the conclusion of new work by University of Amsterdam professor of Music Cognition ...

The BBC has announced the sixth annual Faith & Hope season, an unparalleled commitment to multi-faith religious programming across TV and Radio beginning this month which will run throughout Spring ...

The new species, named after the electro funk band Chromeo, helps explain the larger story of why only one small group of dinosaurs survived the extinction. A fossil rarely reveals an animal’s entire ...

MIT researchers recreate ancient musical instruments using CT scans and 3D technology, allowing audiences to hear sounds from centuries ago.

Macao Culture Assets Exchange, in Collaboration with the China Cultural Relics Exchange Centre, Guowenxuan and Yungang ...

Rihanna, who has said she’s been working on her first new album in a decade, has now shared some cold, hard proof that she really is in the recording studio. The singer shared an 80-second Instagram ...

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From “Yankee Doodle” to iPod playlists, here’s what American troops read and listened to in every war — and how culture became morale equipment.

The Milan Cortina Olympics ended Sunday with a closing ceremony inside the ancient Roman amphitheater, Verona Arena.