Folk songs have a particular place in the world. Unlike many other genres, folk songs are meant to be meditated on. Listeners are meant to chew on the lyrics to gain some understanding of the world ...

Folk music might have reached its peak mainstream popularity in the 1960s, but without the groundwork laid by the music of the 1940s, the folk revival in musical hubs like New York City in the 60s ...

Theatre Wallay, in collaboration with the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany staged its latest theatre production, "Do Dafa Ka Zikr Hai" (Twice Upon a Time), based on traditional German and ...

Look what she made them do. Taylor Swift fans are flocking to a German museum to view a painting of the Shakespeare character Ophelia that the pop star reimagined in a music video for a song off her ...

Swifties are known to bring earthquakes, but this time, they have inundated a German museum. According to reports, fans of singer Taylor Swift visited Hessische Landesmuseum, Wiesbaden, in large ...

Autumn. The days get colder, the nights get longer, and you really don’t want to do anything but drive up to your cabin in the woods and hibernate until the snowdrops start blooming. (You’ve got a ...

She made a name for herself by speaking out against fascism abroad and at home. Then the fight got personal. On the morning of August 25, 1934, the American journalist Dorothy Thompson was taking ...

The celebration of Chhath Puja is incomplete without the divine resonance of Chhath Geet, songs that hold the very essence of the festival. These traditional folk melodies, sung with deep devotion, ...