To her early 20th-century audience, Tsilye Dropkin’s Yiddish poetry was as shocking for its content as its form. A Russian-born poet who immigrated to New York City at the age of 25, Dropkin broke ...

Folksingers are an absorbent lot. The young Bob Dylan, for example, was constantly picking up tricks from other artists on the folk circuit, and incorporating what he had learned into his own writing.

The xx's poemlike songs are almost whispered, with ebbs of silence that creep in between the lines, creating the illusion that the audience is listening to an intimate late-night under-covers ...

PARIS — Legendary singer and songwriter Charles Trenet, whose fanciful ballads and poetic love songs captured the hearts of the French for more than six decades, has died of a stroke. He was 87.

I’m the beat in your heart, pulsing with every breath you take. You can feel my percussion long after you have drifted to sleep. I am House Music. I run so deeply within your veins that each time you ...

(The Conversation) — Valentine’s Day often revives attention on romantic themes in literature. Stories are cited in media with the aim of helping people navigate the demands of the human heart on a ...

K-pop has introduced a plethora of love songs over the decades, from cute rhymes hinting subtle confessions, to deep narratives that make you feel the love as you listen to the song. While catchy ...

A new study from McGill University reports that listening to snippets of happy or peaceful music prompted study participants to recall vivid positive memories. Conversely, listening to sad or ...

Rap and poetry have long been intertwined. Here, a handful of writers share some of the tracks that have helped them hone their own craft. The band The Roots at the House of Blues in Chicago, Ill., ...