Comparative Video 101

Personally, I prefer spirituals over gospel music for roughly the same reasons that I like traditional music over most singer-songwriter n...

I have to say at the outset that the charms of this particular song have eluded me for half a century, though I am certainly an admirer of ...

Two weeks ago , we looked at a song about a poor girl murdered by her lover; last week, we met two young women unfazed by men. This week, ...

Imagine, if you will, that you are touring around western Canada by car - highly recommended, by the way - and you stop for the night in ...

Two of the facets of earlier folk music albums that I loved were the number and variety of foreign language songs, most of which were at lea...

Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart remarked in a 1964 decision that although he was unable to offer a clear and concise definition of wha...

I guess it was Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen's "This Land" at the pre-inaugural concert that got me thinking even more a...

Our "one nation, under God" has from its first years been a hotbed of contentious, bitter partisan brawls. Most of us can't e...