D erek Piotr is always on the hunt for old songs. These ancient melodies and fragmentary lyrics echo across generations, ...

Stephen Foster was an American songwriter born in 1826 in Pennsylvania. He is often called the Father of American Music because he wrote many famous songs in the 1800s. Foster’s songs are still sung ...

The singer-songwriter Dawn Landes has just released her new album, The Liberated Woman's Songbook. It was inspired by a 1971 book of the same name that chronicles the women's liberation movement ...

Folklore is a fully peer-reviewed international journal of folklore and folkloristics. It is one of the earliest English-language journals in the field of folkloristics, first published as The ...

It was inspired by a 1971 book of the same name that chronicles the women's liberation movement through a collection of songs from the 1800s to early 1970. Landes talks to Q guest host Talia Schlanger ...