“They frequently sing, the men and woman answering ... the crew did pick up on the sorrowful tone of their songs. 2 Music was a way for slaves to express their feelings whether it was sorrow ...

United States Women's National Team star Midge Purce had an awkward interaction recently with fellow NWSL player Nikki ...

The songs' lyrics offer a glimpse of the true horror slaves endured as well as a hope ... Singers first performed in the late 1800s, they sang ballads and patriotic anthems; it was their director ...

The album comes together like a story. Each song presents another twist in the plot. Although all the songs on “The Sweet Unknown” are agreeable, something just doesn’t sit right. What that something ...

Written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key, a slave owner ... by Billy Rose and Edward Eliscu and sung by Nelson Eddy, Lawrence Tibbett, and others. That a song with such racist origins has been ...

When slave traders arrived in Sierra Leone ... her grandmother said that “those who sing this song are my brothers and sisters.” Given the similarities between the two songs, the researchers ...

The N-word is a derogatory term; a racial slur which was used to refer to and insult black slaves, but today ... like any other very popular rap song. So they sang along to it." ...

Radiohead's eeriest tracks are perfect for a more polished and "adult" Halloween playlist, but some of these songs will bum ...

The singer, songwriter, and composer Randy Newman had a fascination with the legend of Faust that approached obsession.

is not a racist song, an academic insisted today ... It may have been where the original fear of Britain becoming slaves comes from, but it was actively sung by people who were actively engaged ...

The two women are in yet another gathering of former World War Two sex slaves - the so-called "comfort ... gathered as they have for decades to sing their story in slow a cappella verses.

Exhibit A in critics’ account is the anthem’s seldom-sung ... song, “Parcel of Rogues,” describes Scotland as having been sold out for “hireling traitor’s wages.” “Hireling and ...