But did you know that many of the patriotic songs that glorify America’s past have their roots in English tradition? That’s right. Tom Riis (Reece), professor of Musicology at CU-Boulder’s College of ...

On May 30, five members of a music group in Mexico were found murdered in the northeast of the country. Their group played a popular musical genre known as "narcocorridos" or "corridos tumbados" – ...

It is true that some of these songs seem to glorify not only the gangsters’ wealth but their violence, too. Some are written at a baron’s request, to boost his image (it is almost always a man ...

Those songs, and the bands that recorded them, deserve to fade into obscurity. But here are the best songs about the Holocaust. Bob Dylan, “With God On Our Side” (1964) ...