IN the long-expected work of which the first part lies before us, Professor Child undertakes to give every existing version of every popular English ballad, together with its comparative history, ...

After the Second World War, my family moved from a displaced persons camp in Schleswig-Holstein to a refugee camp in Sussex. From there we were taken in by English families. My mother worked as a ...

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“Power ballad.” The phrase sounds like an oxymoron. Rather, it’s shorthand for the type of song that has, over time, deftly avoided definition. To wit, an anthology titled “The Very Best of Power ...

Vol. 47, No. 2/3, Ballads and Songs in the Eighteenth Century (SUMMER/FALL 2006), pp. 179-202 (24 pages) The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation fosters theoretical and interpretive research ...

These three iconic rock songs were so popular that they became tried-and-true pop hits. Revisit these timeless tracks.

Japanese folk songs evolved in the same way as English language ones even though they are sung in different tones and scales. Patrick Savage at Keio University in Japan and his colleagues analysed the ...