“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 ...
Sitting through the screening at TIFF 2025, I was struck by the beauty and concept of Ballad of a Small Player, a mesmerizing yet flawed character study. The film showcases Edward Berger’s masterful ...
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs highlights themes of mortality through six short Westerns. The Coen Brothers explore the journey to the afterlife in "The Mortal Remains," revealing different perspectives ...
I began working on this concordance to The English and Scottish Popular Ballads in the early 1980's while a graduate student at the University of Colorado, Boulder. At the time I was interested in the ...
IN the long-expected work of which the first part lies before us, Professor Child undertakes to give every existing version of every popular English ballad, together with its comparative history, ...