Editor’s Note: A version of this story also appeared in The Good, the Bad, and the Elegy, a newsletter from the Daily Yonder ...

Katy Kirby, originally from Spicewood, Texas, performs at the Hinterland Music Festival in St. Charles, Iowa. (Photo by Anya Petrone Slepyan). Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in ...

Event to be held Saturday, April 25.

Today’s country music genre had its beginnings in the 1920s with the popularization of two types of music: rural white bluegrass or “hillbilly” music and “western” or “cowboy” music. The two styles ...

Lang Lang poses for a group photo with students from the music class. [Photo by Bai Shuhao/chinadaily.com.cn] Is music the ...