R. Caldecott's collection of pictures & songs

Songwriters often use lyrics to describe the current events and social attitudes of a particular period or people. An examination of America's popular songs—and the stories behind ...

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...

Following the successful,The American Musical Theatre Song Encyclopedia(Greenwood, 1995), this new encyclopedia reviews in-depth individual songs written for the American musical f...

This collection presents folklore recorded by the Finnish folklorist Aukusti Robert Niemi in 1911 in Dzūkija, in the parishes of Valkininkai, Perloja, Merkinė, Nedzingė, and Marcin...

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...

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...