Stetsenko-Skitko has many family members and friends in Ukraine where they are persevering through the daily hardships ...
Music elates, touches the soul and bypasses reason. Music is magic. But precisely this magic can turn it into an insidious weapon for music and violence belong together. The brutal power of African ...
Alex Garland’s incendiary “Civil War” is now in theaters, and it’s sure to get people talking. The film imagines a near-future where America is engaged in another Civil War, this time with multiple ...
Ted Ricketts has had a hand in some of the happiest music heard around the world. As a longtime Disney composer, arranger and producer, his work is reflected in parades, fireworks shows and in ...
How military marches, borrowed melodies and century-old rivalries shaped the anthems that still define college football ...
Peace, joy, and love are three of the most common words that you’ll hear when you listen to popular Christmas music. Maybe listeners will even hear those words in Stevie Wonder’s “Someday at Christmas ...
FILE - College students from various nearby schools march down Commonwealth Avenue in Boston on Oct. 16, 1965 to attend rally on Boston Common protesting U.S. involvement in Vietnam. They're hallmarks ...
J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...
I haven't generally been blogging the news of the war in Ukraine, nor any analysis: I have no real knowledge of the subject, and others can do much more, and much better. But I have been trying to ...
Get up, stand up, sing out! A great protest song may not help change the world in the same way the civil rights and anti-war movements did a half century ago, or the way the Black Lives Matters ...