Taline Harmandian remembers her father not only as the pioneering figure of Armenian pop music, but as a deeply present, protective and attentive parent — “the mountain standing firmly behind me,” as ...

For a genre that confronts the horrors of the present, the protest song of 2026 is curiously backward-looking.

During this year’s Armenian Heritage Cruise (AHC), a restored silent film premiered on Jan. 11, accompanied by a newly composed soundtrack. The Melody of Armenia tells the story of Mrs. Ghazarian, a ...

Protest songs transform emotion into action, and Bruce Springsteen's anthem to Minneapolis is one in a long line of powerful ...

Egg's song "The Hammer and the Anvil" in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms reveals a key Targarye connection to the Blackfyre ...

But the shows, which combine dance, drama and music, are also part of an effort by Myanmar’s military rulers to project a veneer of legitimacy.

Partisan Song” tells how a Jewish engineer from Ukraine became a guerilla war hero. His music will be heard for the first time in 83 years.

Arctic Monkeys and Damon Albarn tell us about working on Help 2, an all-star charity album for War Child UK, which helps ...

With the ascent of the radio, popular music became an important cultural phenomenon for the masses throughout the world. Therefore, it is the perfect mouthpiece for Allied war propaganda during the ...

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 ...