A video posted to Facebook recently went viral showing the congregation of The House of Hope Baptist Church in Atlanta getting down to secular music. The church received heavy public scrutiny via ...

“They say, ‘The holy water's watered down, and this town's lost its faith,’” a man sings soulfully. This is not a religious condemnation of the terrible things that have happened on Earth. It’s a tune ...

From West African spirituality to the gangsta rap of Tupac Shakur, Reed, a music theorist, muses on the intersection of the sacred and the profane in the history of black music. She's particularly ...

January 1979: Al Green can barely sit still behind his desk at his offices just across the road from the Memphis airport. The nondescript building is tucked behind another housing “Al Green ...

Sometime in the wee hours of last night, I found myself in a dimly-lit bar watching a band best described as noise rock and fronted by a pear-shaped, ponytailed, half-naked man who at one point ...

What humans envy birds for most, of course, is their power of flight — but their singing ability runs a close second. As a result, birds have often figured prominently in music, and this weekend’s ...