Song, songs, and singing

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

The Italian singing technique Bel Canto instructs, "He who knows how to breathe and how to pronounce, knows how to sing."Singing: The First Artincorporates the techniques of Bel Ca...

The key to understanding the vast majority of sacred expression in country music is understanding the gospel song and the religious developments for which it was the primary musica...