Music is a universal language. Or so musicians like to claim. “With music,” they’ll say, “you can communicate across cultural and linguistic boundaries in ways that you can’t with ordinary languages ...

Which came first: language or music? Traditionally, music has been considered an evolutionary by-product of language. Language, after all, is one of the few skills we have that makes us uniquely human ...

MBALAX EXPLORATIONS San Francisco’s Sonny Smith improvises music with Senegalese musicians on ‘The Diving Kind.’ (Photo by Stéphanie Pfister) On his latest album, The Diving Kind, Sonny Smith of San ...

Could albums by Ha*Ash and other Latin artists be Spanish instruction textbooks, too? We ask the experts. Credit: Album cover art Besame Mucho Festival is coming to Texas March 2. The festival is ...

DENVER (AP) — It is often said music is the universal language of humanity. Now a 12-year-old Houston boy is putting that to the test among an unlikely audience — man’s best friend. Yuvi Agarwal ...

WYOMING, Mich. — Life lessons that are being taught through the language of music. Our newest Teacher of the Week is a band teacher for Wyoming Public Schools. Shawn Gurk told 13 ON YOUR SIDE, “I was ...

Legend has it that once upon a time, people all spoke the same language. They decided to build a city and a tower as high as possible, to get closer to God. God, annoyed by this act of defiance by ...