And from the screen now to the speaker - or at least the earbud. MARIA SHERMAN: Hip-hop and R&B have been the largest musical genres in popularity globally, dethroning rock music for a long time.

As 2025 comes to an end, we can see signs that the music industry may be ready to move on from a model that hasn’t really changed in over a decade. Every mode of distributing music to the public has ...

Humans devote ample time to producing and listening to music. What music offers to humans is universally valued. This universality raises the question of the origin of human musicality. What is music ...