“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 ...

Despite years of patient complaints and quality-of-care concerns, Ballad Health—the nation's largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly—will now be held to a lower standard by the Tennessee government ...

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 ...

Dear Illinois, I can’t fight this feeling anymore. It’s time to bring this ship into the shore, and throw away the oars. We sailed on together. We drifted apart. But I know, if the world turned upside ...

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, ...

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 ...