“Power ballad.” The phrase sounds like an oxymoron. Rather, it’s shorthand for the type of song that has, over time, deftly avoided definition. To wit, an anthology titled “The Very Best of Power ...

Netflix's Ballad of a Small Player seemed to have everything going for it. Its director, Edward Berger, had been on a hot streak. His previous films, All Quiet on the Western Front and Conclave, were ...

“Never Say Goodbye” was one of a few hits from Bon Jovi’s 1986 breakthrough record, Slippery When Wet. It’s quite a memorable little power ballad, and it wasn’t even released as a single. Still, it ...

What are some of the best ballads by big grunge artists? Although grunge is known mainly as a sullen, dark style of music with a droning atmosphere and emotionally-charged lyrics, the bands we ...

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs highlights themes of mortality through six short Westerns. The Coen Brothers explore the journey to the afterlife in "The Mortal Remains," revealing different perspectives ...

IN the long-expected work of which the first part lies before us, Professor Child undertakes to give every existing version of every popular English ballad, together with its comparative history, ...

I began working on this concordance to The English and Scottish Popular Ballads in the early 1980's while a graduate student at the University of Colorado, Boulder. At the time I was interested in the ...