Author: Eric Weisbard

If you drive into any American city with the car stereo blasting, you’ll undoubtedly find radio stations representing R&B/hip-hop, country, Top 40, adult contemporary, rock, and Latin, each playing h …

Arguing that pop music turns on moments rather than movements, the essays in Listen Again pinpoint magic moments from a century of pop eclecticism, looking at artists who fall between genre lines, so …

Hearing Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan once said, was "like busting out of jail." But what happens when popular music isn’t as simple as rock-and-roll rebellion? How does pop respond to such even …

Many listeners first heard "Hound Dog" when Elvis Presley’s single topped the pop, country, and R&B charts in 1956. But some fans already knew the song from Big Mama Thornton’s earlier reco …