Wham!’s “Last Christmas” from 1984 and Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” from 1958 demonstrate how different ...

Christmas music is a nostalgia trip. Generally speaking, pop music prizes novelty — fresh songs, surprising sounds, this week’s hit, the Next Big Thing. But once a year, a soundtrack that reaches back ...

It’s a common seasonal refrain: “Christmas just isn’t like it used to be.” This is not a new complaint. History shows that Christmas traditions are just as subject to change as any other aspect of ...

The holiday season is packed with festive TV specials and movies. On Dec. 1, Derek Hough hosts “The Wonderful World of Disney ...

Who better to present an Olde English Christmas program than, well … an old Englishman? But age is little more than a state ...

Visit a festive Old Dutch Parsonage for a reading and discussion of passages from Washington Irving’s “Old English Christmas” in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Trace the history of the ...

The first Christmas card with the words 'A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year to You." Artist John Callcott Horsley via Wikimedia Commons It’s a common seasonal refrain: “Christmas just isn’t like ...

KEARNEY — As a guitarist who specializes in Celtic fingerstyle music, Jerry Barlow connects with Christmas songs. “A lot of the contemporary pop music, things like ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little ...

For a few weeks every winter, popular music tumbles into a time warp. Old-school trumps cutting edge. Greatest Generation artists rule millennial playlists. A 27-year-old song leads the pop charts — ...