A son of Lebanese musical icons, he became one himself, with satirical critiques of his country’s dysfunction that melded ...

Aug. 1 marks Emancipation Day in Canada. Here are 25 books by Canadian authors that examine themes of racial and social ...

The Vietnam War was still raging, civil rights movements were transforming America, and women everywhere were gaining ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Ziad Rahbani, a visionary Lebanese composer, playwright, pianist and political provocateur, died on Saturday, ...

Hundreds of people in Lebanon have paid tribute to iconic composer, pianist and playwright Ziad Rahbani, who died over the ...

Tom Lehrer, the popular and erudite song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math ...

The foreword to Blockade was written by Canadian author and poet Joy Kogawa, a friend of both Patricia and Christine Lowther. Kogawa says this about the book: “Chris takes us into the forest, into the ...

It’s very flattering that people remember the songs and have kept them alive all these years,” Mr. Lehrer told The Boston ...

Classic rock music was, in many ways, made for rebellion. These are three of the most rebellious classic rock songs.

In the US, where hard-won rights are currently under attack, 1965’s seeming fetishisation of submission and female powerlessness has angered many listeners. Murph has claimed the song is “ satire ” – ...

A man of the people, the artist put his money where his mouth was by visiting prisons around the country and performing the ...

LONDON (Reuters) -Sailing in the June sunshine off the island of Lesbos, Greek fisherman Thanos Marmarinos remembers how he ...