Faced with Russia’s efforts to erase Ukrainian culture, people have embraced traditional music as a way to reconnect with their past and affirm their identity. Roksolaniya, a traditional Ukrainian ...

Weaving through the rooms of my Brisbane childhood home, carried on the languid, humid, sub-tropical air, was the sound of an Iranian tenor singing 800-year old Persian poems of love. I was in primary ...

At the heart of our traditional music is the notion of returning to the well: that source of infinite riches where melodies and songs abound. Whether it's one singer borrowing a song from another or a ...

Before I dive into an account of Myamnar’s traditional court music, called Mahar Gita, I would like to point to Nusasonic’s Common Tonalities project, led by Khyam Allami in 2022. This project ...

The 1980s and '90s were the time for a new, yet old, take on country music: neo-traditional country. Randy Travis, Alan Jackson, Patty Loveless, Marty Stuart and George Strait, among others, were all ...