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Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for The Recording AcademyThe Puerto Rican diaspora is celebrating the rise of one of their own all the way to this year’s Super Bowl halftime show. -
Photo by Reed and Susan Erskine. Courtesy Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian InstitutionClifton Chenier is known as the King of Zydeco. He was a pioneering accordion player who melded Black Creole dance music from southwest Louisiana and east Texas with rhythm and blues.
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Mike Coppola/Getty Images/Getty Images North AmericaPetra River-Rideau, co-author of the Bad Bunny Syllabus and the new book P FKN R, says the Puerto Rican artist often wields joy as resistance. -
NPR Music's Stephen Thompson reports on new music shaping the charts.
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The Travis Scott signee came up in the shadow of his mentor's rootless sound. On Octane, he taps his hometown's lineage and finds a star power all his own. -
Green Day will kick off the music portion of the Super Bowl with a performance at the game's opening ceremony. Will politics be part of their act? -
These wildly different artists both reach the top of the pop charts this week. -
Protest requires people to take a stand and hold firm. Pop songs are designed to appeal across demographic lines. In music, as in the rest of the world, resistance takes place closer to the ground. -
In 1965, Davis led one of the all-time great jazz groups. That December, they recorded seven sets over two nights in a Chicago nightclub. The complete recordings went unreleased for decades.
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Backed by a band and choir, Pastor John P. Kee transforms the Tiny Desk into an old, wood-floored country church. -
Young People's Records was a popular mail-order subscription club in the 1940s, '50s and '60s. -
On "Aperture," the lead single from his upcoming album, the pop artist mines a different era of pop music. -
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