It is impossible to think of American music in this century without such Southern-derived forms as ragtime, jazz, blues, country, gospel ... traditions - such as old-time fiddling and string ...

"Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous! Praise befits the upright. Praise the Lord with the lyre, make melody to him with the harp of ten strings! Sing to him a new song, play skilfully on the strings, ...

Watts has been described as “the liberator of English hymnody” as his hymns moved people away from simply singing Old Testament psalms ... of hymnody known as “gospel” emerged.

You're probably familiar with classic hymns like “Silent Night” and “The First Noel,” but you may not know the history behind some of these centuries-old songs ... At the time, it was ...

Hymns mean so much to so many people and if you have a favourite BBC Songs of Praise would like to know. Choose your all-time number one ... and gets its name, “Old Hundredth”, from its ...

At week’s end, as the returns came down the mountains by mulepack, slight, mustached Julius Nyerere, 36-year-old head of the Tanganyika ... But as his followers sang a little hymn to “Bwana ...

And by the time this article runs, there will probably be a new “it” compliment! But in the days of yore, old-timey compliments were often well-arranged verbal bouquets of flowery words that ...

As time passes, the visual information that illustrates our memories fades away, Boston College researchers report Like old photographs, memories fade in quality over time – a surprising finding for a ...

The hymn will be performed publicly for the first time on the BBC’s Songs of Praise, during a special episode about the ...

In this big, beckoning land full of wide-open spaces, there’s almost nowhere for working people to live. More than 90 percent of the land is owned by government agencies that have little ...