Recently popularized by the movie "The Descendants," Hawaiian folk is a soothing style of acoustic folk music featuring slack-key guitar, ukulele, and warm vocal harmonies. Say aloha to traditional Hawaiian folk's best artists, both past and present.
Explore the ornate and beautiful era we call the baroque period. Hear the best tunes from 1600 to 1750 including masterworks by Bach, Vivaldi, and many more.
The soothing and magical harp dates to 500 BC and has been used in a variety of musical settings ever since. Drift off to a gentler plane on the dulcet tones of these classical masterpieces.
Characterized by its lush vocal harmonies, "doomph, doomph" bass lines, group snapping, and high falsetto, doo-wop was one of the most popular musical styles of the '50s and '60s.
Recently popularized by the movie "The Descendants," Hawaiian folk is a soothing style of acoustic folk music featuring slack-key guitar, ukulele, and warm vocal harmonies. Say aloha to traditional Hawaiian folk's best artists, both past and present.
With the onset of Prohibition, the country went dry and the party moved underground. Revisit American pop music's salad days, when ragtime was morphing into dixieland jazz and the first recordings of rural blues were being heard in major cities.
A full orchestra is not always needed for classical music; in fact, more music has been written for intimate spaces than grand concert halls. Explore the chamber music of the great composers.
Jazz as we know it began with the exciting blues-based licks and bold syncopation of ragtime. Enjoy the works of the ragtime masters who dominated the genre, as well as the early jazz groups who helped make the rag an American institution.
All of Bob Marley's greatest songs -- from his earliest solo release, "Judge Not," to his first recordings with The Wailers at Studio One, up to his later-period hits -- as well as the best songs and covers from his contemporaries and collaborators.
Western swing was developed in the dance halls of America's lower Great Plains during 1920s and '30s. Derived predominantly from swing jazz, Western swing laid the sonic foundation upon which country music was later built.