popular music

Now, when women dominate popular music, a Lilith Fair might not seem as culturally necessary; but those were different times,

Adroit in the green arts of film and popular music, L.A. is only now beginning to cultivate opera.

During the past decade, Stanley published three music journalism books: one on the birth of popular music, another on its 20th century apex and a more recent one on the Bee Gees.

But that 1951 performance had a huge effect on how to transform folk music, popular music, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and what-not, twisted, transformed and tacked together.

My business partner, Kenneth Womack, who would come to host “Everything Fab Four,” had already been writing about popular music for Salon for several years.