You know the songs of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, but do you know the 1940s songs that shaped their vision of folk music?

Somehow, the 1940s are almost a century away. The decade, which saw the world go to war for a second time and the fall of the German Nazis, was also an exhilarating time for music. In some ways, it ...

The 1980s ushered in the era of MTV music videos. But decades earlier in the 1940s, there were short music films called Soundies. KJZZ's Jill Ryan looks at how Soundies brought Black performers to the ...

I was looking through my music collection and I realized that I really don't have very much music from the 1940s and early 50s (i.e. pre-Elvis, pre-Rock Around the Clock). Here's some stuff that I ...

For more than two decades, the In The Mood music revue has traveled around the country recreating a magical period in popular American music. The swing music and big band sounds of the 1940s helped ...

A brassy tribute to the 1940s swing era, “In The Mood,” is a big-band music revue that has been touring all over the world — and now, in its 21st year the show makes its first stopover in New Orleans ...