The artists reflected on how songs from the past continue to connect emotionally with new audiences.

In an increasingly confusing modern music industry, is reliance on nostalgia the reason we're in such disarray?

Nostalgia consists of the mixture of pleasure coming from the memory of something lived (e.g., childhood, relationships), and the pain caused by that event being gone forever. Students graduating from ...

Feeling stuck in a maze of the same old music day after day? Is your queue full of songs that came out when you were in high school? Want to find new music but get discouraged by how much there is, so ...

Getting one's groove on, A.K.A. busting a move, is an age-old tradition that dates back more than 50,000 years to the time of Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon humans, who rhythmically writhed to drumming ...

Nostalgia exploded as its own genre due to habitual reevaluations of the past becoming a dependable source of traffic. Revisiting the shows, movies, music, and moments of yesterday sparks conversation ...

Have you ever wondered why certain songs instantly trigger a memory or feeling and take you back to a specific time? Whether it’s the theme tune to that children’s show you loved, the song that would ...

Here Fred Jacobs explores how his dives into music data and analytics has revealed that, while the technology surrounding music has changed dramatically, nostalgia still has an incredibly powerful on ...

In my research, I have spent a good deal of time speaking with people from across the world about their relationship with sound and music—how it features in their everyday lives and how it influences ...

Frivolous question for you: What in the damn hell will be the Song of Summer 2020? What will—what should—it sound like? How can a frivolous pop song capture the vibe of [gestures wildly] all this? Is ...