In abolitionist Henry Clay Work’s song, “the year of jubilo” — the time when “Lincoln’s soldiers have come” — holds the promise of “the kingdom a-coming.” But in Howard Bahr’s novel, June 1865, the ...

This is the tale of a record collector, Joe Bussard. Bussard boasts a collection of 78 rmp shellacs numbering in the 10,000s and including a good many of the pre-WWII Paramount blues and country sides ...

“In dulci jubilo” is one of the oldest and most famous of the “macaronic” Christmas songs—carols that combine two or more languages. The original melody is likely a variant of a medieval Gregorian ...