On the eve of the Tet holiday, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launch surprise attacks on cities and military bases ...

Learn the story behind The Civil War soundtrack, including Jay Ungar’s “Ashokan Farewell,” traditional period music, and how ...

Mr. Mauceri is the author of “The War on Music — Reclaiming the Twentieth Century.” There is a trope often heard in discussions about culture that classical music is irrelevant — an elite and moribund ...

Last week the war song bottleneck appeared to be broken. Three were going great guns: > Lyricist Frank Loesser’s Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition! (inspired by a Navy Chaplain’s historic remark ...

In the ’80s, there were plenty of great recordings that came out of the nascent new-wave and punk scenes. But one of the single greatest documents of the period was actually a movie. Urgh! A Music War ...

What men sing as they march forth to war is a continual vexation to serious musicians. In the Civil War, Stonewall Jackson’s “foot cavalry” were fond of a song praising goober peas (“Goodness, how ...