Now Sheba Sings the Song

Landscapes of the Song of Songs is a unique, interdisciplinary approach to the ancient poetry of the Song of Songs. It develops a theoretical concept of landscape to explore the So...

The first encyclopedia of theatre songs from Broadway shows ranging fromThe Black Crook(1866) to the 1994 Tony Award-winningPassion, this handy guide features over 1,800 songs from...

Listening to Art Song: An Introduction offers an easy-to-read, fresh perspective on the remarkably diverse musical genre of art song. As the ultimate expression of the human singin...

Abstract “Jolene” is one of Dolly Parton’s most beloved songs. Released in 1974 as the title song of Dolly’s thirteenth studio album, it is a cultural phenomenon. Os...

Relationships are a wonderful, mysterious, often elusive, sometimes painful part of the human experience. The most intimate of all human relationships, according to the Bible, is t...

The torch song has long been a vehicle for expression—perhaps American song's most sheerly visceral one. Two artists in particular have built upon this tradition to express their o...

Posing more riddles than the average sphinx, with its decipherable answers pointing somewhere dark, Song Cycle was anything but passive. I had already witnessed hippie bands playin...

Islands are concentrated “instances” of place, in every sense of the term. As such, there are no better candidates for observing and critiquing the dynamics of globalization. Throu...