Music movies are having a moment — if, indeed, they ever stopped having one. Take the pop-music biopic. There are times, like right now, when it surges in popularity, yet the form has never gone out ...

This summer’s “Trap,” from M. Night Shyamalan, works hard to turn its fictional star — and her fans — into heroes. By Robert Rubsam Last fall, I went with friends to see a popular British rock band at ...

Modern pop music emerged in the mid-1950s in the United Kingdom and the United States. In its true form, pop music is a combination of musical types or genres. There are influences from the jazz era ...