Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote, “Music is the universal language of mankind.” In a music review written 55 years later, George Bernard Shaw said, “Though music be a universal language, ...

Beyoncé winning the best country album Grammy with Cowboy Carter forces us to face our fixation with ‘genre’ – and rightly so ...

New styles and different features have been created ... This led to particular types of music developing in different places. In the video below, the Philharmonia Voices perform from Francis ...

Is 'genre' useful in music? On one level, genre is a simple and necessary mechanism for categorising different types of music. Genre encodes various aspects of music, including instrumentation ...