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The word “folk ... created songs in her programs. But Miss Baez does speak out explicitly against racial prejudice and militarism, and she does sing some of the best of the new topical ...

The best New Jack Swing songs are sonically defined as R&B with production more traditionally associated with hip-hop. But it’s also a culture too. In 1987, writer Barry Michael Cooper went to ...

Born in 1942 in Barisal, now in Bangladesh, Mukhopadhyay later moved to West Bengal, where he became a defining figure in Bengali music and songwriting. Deeply influenced by literature and folk ...

Singer-songwriter Sahana Bajpaie has been based out of London for 17 years now. Her connection to Bengali culture is ...

Paul Clayton arrived on the folk music scene before Bob Dylan and in fact taught the "unwashed vagabond" a few tricks of the trade. Paul Clayton Worthington was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, on ...

THE recent amalgamation of the Folk Song Society with the English Folk Dance Society has been marked by the appearance of a new journal with the title Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song ...

March 11, 2025 • We've got just what you need for that stubborn case of existential dread in a looming dystopia as we update our running list of the year's best songs, with new ones from yeule ...

In its second run in the city, an Ambedkarite opera examines resonant questions of social politics, music and context as the ...

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