This video presents a musical journey through the evolution of popular music from the early 20th century to the modern era. Using the violin as the main instrument, the performance highlights ...

Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and the passage of time. While some vanished completely, others survived by the ...

In the early 20th century, Chicago became an epicenter for the manufacture of musical instruments. Credit: Illustration by Frank Okay Like a giant urban phoenix, Chicago rose from the ashes of the ...

Golden means : assay instruments and the geography of precision in the Guinea trade / Simon Schaffer -- The project for a map of Languedoc in eighteenth-century France at the contested intersection ...