IN the long-expected work of which the first part lies before us, Professor Child undertakes to give every existing version of every popular English ballad, together with its comparative history, ...

PROFESSOR NEILSON’S novel and wellplanned series opens auspiciously with a volume of just the right size from the practiced hand of Professor Gummere. 1 It is a commonplace that the more one knows of ...

The power ballad was just as essential to the 1980s as hairspray, shoulder pads, and neon. Here are three of the best.

Whatever your elders might tell you, violence in popular entertainment is nothing new. The people of early modern Europe frequently wove blood-soaked tales of murder, rape, and other crimes into ...

Narcoballads are songs that mix traditional Mexican music with the exploits of drug traffickers. Listen to clips from some of the more popular ballads and meet some of the more popular artists and the ...

Narcoballads are songs that mix traditional Mexican music with the exploits of drug traffickers. Listen to clips from some of the more popular ballads and meet some of the more popular artists and the ...