To mark America's Semiquincentennial, TIME asked 25 experts to share a song that captures the essence of American life today.

It is impossible to live in any of the 50 states in the U.S.A. and not know about schoolhouse classics like “The Star-Spangled Banner” and “This Land Is Your Land,” but those famous odes aren’t the ...

From the birth of the teenager to the digital age, these tracks serve as historical markers for the shifting moods and ...

Donald Glover's music video for "This is America" is a jarring work of art that addresses gun violence, entertainment, police ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Or maybe younger: Shaboozey was 8 going on 9 when J-Kwon’s underage drinking anthem crashed the charts. On “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” ...

The Miss America Organization has hit a bum note with the widow of the man who wrote its signature tune. Phyllis Wayne, whose late husband Bernie Wayne wrote the song "Miss America" (popularly known ...

Twenty years ago, the country legend talked with Variety's chief music critic about what drove him to write the anti-Bush/anti-Iraq-war song, now being revived as the Republican VP candidate's walk-up ...

In this 250th anniversary year of the United States, pianist Lara Downes is traveling the country collecting conversations with scholars, searching for our history through songs. Her first stop is a ...