Music plays a central role in most cultures across the world. Some music, like rap and hip hop, even permeates cultural differences to take on a global identity. But the question of why some people ...

Edward Downes, a musicologist, professor, and critic best known as host of the "Texaco Opera Quiz" heard during live Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts, died Wednesday at his New York home. He was… ...

Forensic musicologist Joe Bennett spends much of his time uncovering some of the more costly mysteries of the musical world, analysing compositions and working out whether they are original or have ...

Joe Bennett is a coveted man. He's one of a few in the world who works as a forensic musicologist. He says he's been called to work on disputes which involve Lily Allen and will.i.am and also teaches ...

“It’s hard to believe that it was ten years ago,” Pandora radio’s Chief Musicologist Nolan Gasser confided to me in a recent interview. “I was completing my doctorate in musicology at Stanford, and ...

Alan Lomax, the celebrated musicologist who helped preserve America's and the world's heritage by making thousands of recordings of folk, blues and jazz musicians from the 1930s onward, died Friday… ...