Featured Topics American Indian Music and Sound Musical traditions of American Indian cultures are highlighted along with music and sound resources to explore. Spirituality and Music This feature highlights the connections between spirituality and music. African American Music Exploring African American music in all of its glory and variety. Love and Music Music and love are natural allies. Explore some of the ways people have connected with love through music. View all featured topics Stories Articles from our magazines, educational resources, artist spotlights, and more. This Land Is Whose Land? Indian Country and the Shortcomings of Settler Protest Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage From Cuba to Catalonia, Let’s Rumba Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage The Keeper of the Violin Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Drum Sounds and Their Meanings Folkways Recordings Venezuelan Music: A Light in the Darkness Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage The Quarter-Century Reign of Mariachi Reyna Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage How the Music of Hawaiʻi’s Last Ruler Guided the Island’s People Through Crisis Smithsonian Magazine “We Shelter in Songs”: Women Marimberas of Colombia and Ecuador Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Cowboys in the Tropics: A History of the Hawaiian Paniolo Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage The Rise of Female Batá Drummers: Gender, Sexuality, and Taboo in a Cuban Ritual Tradition Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Steinway Diary Project National Museum of American History Appalachian Women Heritage Fellows Folkways Recordings How a Bugle Tells a Story of Triumph, Loss, Duty, and the Power of Music Smithsonian Magazine The World’s First LGBTQ Mariachi Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage A New Generation of Shape-Note Singers in Philadelphia Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage The Smithsonian’s Biggest Drum Smithsonian Music The Invention of the Electric Guitar National Museum of American History The Electric Guitar’s Long, Strange Trip National Museum of American History In Our Own Voice: Songs of American Indian Women Folkways Recordings Rock, Pedal and Roll: Band Tours the World by Bicycle Smithsonian Magazine Singing Truth to Power: Barbara Dane’s One-Woman Riot Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage The Marvelous Musical Prodigy: Thomas Greene 'Blind Tom' Wiggins National Museum of African American History and Culture Peggy Seeger: A Life of Music, Love, and Politics Folkways Recordings Women in World War I: Music National Museum of American History Pages1 2 3 4 next › last »
