From Trace Adkins and Gloria Estefan to Craig Morgan and Min Kwon, these newly released patriotic songs are helping celebrate ...

July Fourth marks summer's midway point and, of course, America's birthday. In 2026, the U.S. will celebrate 250 years and ...

On the eve of America's 250th birthday, NPR's Juana Summers talks with NPR Music's Stephen Thompson and Sheldon Pearce about songs that reflect the country's complex identity.

A range of artists were asked to perform two songs, one from the back pages of the American songbook and a modern song that they think will live on.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As communities all across the country prepare to celebrate America’s 250th birthday, Greenville audiences will have a chance to ...

The program at the Bronxivlle Library will feature an amplified cello performance that will bring to life a uniquely American experience.

We asked 25 people to tell us about a song that captures the sound of the present, speaks to where American culture is going, or otherwise evokes this moment in time. Here are their answers, including ...

"Of all nations," wrote Walt Whitman, "the United States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets and will doubtless have the greatest and use them the greatest." This prediction in ...

The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music at Monmouth University, which houses the archives of its namesake Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, welcomed its first visitors ...

Stephen Foster wrote some of the most enduring American songs, invented the role of songwriter, and served as a cautionary ...

Thousands of songs representing some of the rarest and most uniquely American music borne from the Jazz Age and the Great Depression would have likely been lost to landfills and faded from memory.