A team of scientists from the University of Southern California (USC) are taking on a decades-old mystery concerning the human brain and how it processes utterances that aren’t linguistic in nature.

To all who suffered through the 88 minutes of torture that was Beyoncé’s 2001 flop, Carmen: A Hip Hopera, and to all who endured — chapter by merciless chapter — all twelve segments of R. Kelly’s ...

It's Friday, which is when we hear from StoryCorps. And today we hear from a father-daughter beatboxing duo. In the 1980s, Ed Cage fell in love with beatboxing, which was part of the St. Louis hip-hop ...

The nuns, Sisters Marizele Cassiano and Marisa de Paula, have both been involved in religious life for more than a decade The Sisters, both in their 40s, say they view music and dance as a powerful ...

When first generation rapper Doug E. Fresh, former Roots beatmaker Rahzel or “Yo Gabba Gabba” rapper Biz Markie learned to mimic a hip-hop rhythm using only their voices, chances were they had little ...

Using the mouth, lips, tongue and voice to generate sounds that one might never expect to come from the human body is the specialty of the artists known as beatboxers. Now scientists have used ...

Beatboxing is a musical art form in which performers use their vocal tract to create percussive sounds, and a team of researchers is using real-time MRI to study the production of beatboxing sounds.

The art of beatboxing is unparalleled – intricate layers of booms and clicks produced by a single person’s mouth in ways that seem almost super-human. Watching a great beatboxer turn out a series of ...