The Almanac Singers in 1942, from left, Woody Guthrie, Millard Lampell, Bess Hawes, Pete Seeger, Arthur Stern and Sis Cunningham Share on Twitter. Opens in a new window. Share on Facebook. Opens in a ...
Popularised by The Muppets in 1969, “Mah-Nà Mah-Nà” is a gloriously absurd and defiantly wordless earworm with a surprising history. It was written — in haste — the previous year as part of the ...
The inmates of Wandsworth prison in London who participate in the Liberty Choir singing programme have a favourite song. In a recent BBC Radio 4 report on the community choir’s work inside the jail, ...
Written in 1918 by black vaudeville duo Turner Layton and Henry Creamer, the bestselling American record of 1919 belongs to the category that Quincy Jones calls “the beg”. A jilted lover begs a ...
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For two months in the spring of 2022, Mariupol was the scene of fierce fighting between Russia’s invading army and Ukraine. When Vladimir Putin’s forces finally captured the city in May, almost half ...
In April this year Merriam-Webster expanded its dictionary. To “stan” is “to exhibit fandom to an extreme or excessive degree”. Whether self-deprecatingly ironic or alarmingly sincere, stans are ...
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A record 57,800 detainees are now being held — a 46 per cent increase since Trump came to power — with reports of overcrowding, poor food and issues with medical and legal access. Financial Times ...
China is comfortably the world’s trading superpower. Its trade surplus — the difference between imports and exports — rose to almost $1tn last year. Beijing’s exporting machine is one of the main ...
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