Jan Zizka, a beloved 15th-century Czech folk hero, looms large in the nation’s collective consciousness, a skilled, ingenious, one-eyed warrior who led peasants and rebels into battles that he never ...

Star Wars, with its timeless tale about the battle between good and evil, would have enraptured audiences enjoying a mug of mulled wine in any wayward tavern along the road long ago. And John Williams ...

The Rat Queen steps up to the mic in a chain-mail bra, Gibson SG in hand, her fiery red hair catching the spotlight. Beside ...

Humans must have learned to sing early in our history because “we can find something we can call music in every society,” says musicologist Yuto Ozaki of Keio University in Tokyo. But did singing ...

Netflix's new original dark comedy series The Decameron premiered on July 25, and once audiences start binge-watching all eight episodes, there's going to be a little something more surprising than ...

Blackmore’s Night is best known for their songs “Under a Violet Moon,” “Loreley,” and “Ghost of a Rose.” The band is led by ...

Folk songs are incredibly multifaceted. Folks write folk songs to capture the climate of the given time, to dissect the given emotion of any moment, and ultimately, to articulate a nuance that can’t ...

LOS ANGELES — Singer-songwriter Peter Yarrow, one-third of the iconic folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died. He was 86. Yarrow, with Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers, captured the attention of ...

Japanese folk songs evolved in the same way as English language ones even though they are sung in different tones and scales. Patrick Savage at Keio University in Japan and his colleagues analysed the ...

Jan Zizka, a beloved 15th century Czech folk hero, looms large in the nation’s collective consciousness, a skilled, ingenious, one-eyed warrior who led peasants and rebels into battles that he never ...