To mark America's Semiquincentennial, TIME asked 25 experts to share a song that captures the essence of American life today.

From the birth of the teenager to the digital age, these tracks serve as historical markers for the shifting moods and ...

If you weren't listening closely, you might have missed the fact that these famous rock songs were actually political in ...

Country Joe McDonald, whose performance at Woodstock — in which he led a crowd of 400,000 through a subversive cheer before starting his satirical anti-war song “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag” — ...