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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...