SAFE. IT IS WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH. FOR DECADES, THEY HAVE LEFT THEIR MARK IN THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT AND NATIONWIDE. THIS INCLUDES LOUISE MASSEY, MAYBE ONE OF THE FIRST FEMALE COUNTRY AND WESTERN ...

Steve Cormier is fond of saying he doesn’t write “ride into the sunset songs.” What Cormier, a veteran Western musician, means is that the cowboy songs he pens are rooted in the life of actual, ...

In a world where mainstream music is often detached from politics or cultural identity, artists like Xiuhtezcatl Martínez offer a powerful alternative. A hip-hop singer/songwriter with Mexica — an ...

Where did Western music come from? Most historical accounts credit composers with the first formations of simple tunes, which eventually led to “early music” and later classical music and the many ...

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 ...