Since antiquity, no other text has enjoyed a presence quite like The Book of Songs – in one critic’s words, it is “the classic of the human heart and the human mind.” It is the first ...

Along with hangovers and broken resolutions, the beginning of a new year means the ... “Moonshine Blues,” Ma Rainey: Writing songs about getting drunk has been cool for over 100 years!

Tuesday didn’t just mark the start of the new year; it was also the first so-called Public Domain ... More than 50,000 books, films and musical compositions are now officially in the public ...

When “Fleetwood Mac All the Songs,” was delivered to my doorstep, the thumping noise scared the dogs, and when I opened the box and saw the book inside, it was love at first sight. This is my ...

An announcement in March said that the book will constitute “a master ... Blues, R&B and hillbilly songs from the first half of the 20th century figure in heavily. But the majority of songs ...

Such songs appeared in the original Penguin Book of English Folk Songs ... work of a group of song collectors who spearheaded the first British folk revival. At the end of the 19th century ...

Since antiquity, no other text has enjoyed a presence quite like The Book of Songs – in one critic’s words, it is “the classic of the human heart and the human mind.” It is the first ...