Beyoncé's "Cowboy Carter" tour has boosted interest in Western fashion, particularly cowboy hats. Chicago entrepreneur Mercedes Matz owns Maya James, a company selling handmade leather cowboy hats.

Country is a broad musical category that includes elements of folk, bluegrass and blues. Love it or hate it, the genre is about as quintessentially American as apple pie. Though white men in cowboy ...

Larry McMurtry wanted Lonesome Dove to upend the traditional western novel. But the book, which was published forty years ago this month, elicited a different reaction than he expected. “To the public ...

Beyoncé has undoubtedly put a renewed spotlight on Black country artists, the genre as a whole and its culture and fashion. One Beyoncé fan and Black business owner says she hopes fans start to ...