Murder ballads have been part of the Appalachian songbook for centuries. Imported from the Scottish-English borderlands via the Irish province of Ulster, they remain popular traditional songs within ...

Euronews Culture met with Klavdia, a rising star in the Greek music scene and the country’s representative at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. Many Greeks are pinning their hopes on her to bring ...

It was completely by accident that I came across the song “Tell Laura I Love Her” by Ray Peterson, but that song opened up an entire new style of song that I didn’t even know existed—the teenage death ...

“Power ballad.” The phrase sounds like an oxymoron. Rather, it’s shorthand for the type of song that has, over time, deftly avoided definition. To wit, an anthology titled “The Very Best of Power ...

With her latest project, “The Ballad of Mauthausen,” Dutch Yiddish singer Niki Jacobs has pulled off the seemingly impossible: She has recast the song cycle of the same name by Greek composer Mikis ...

His prolific career, which started at age 17, produced a hugely varied body of work that ranged from somber symphonies and an anthem for the Palestinian Liberation Organization to television and film ...