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Work songs, musical pieces designed to be performed or sung while working, have been widely documented across various cultures and in different historical periods. For instance, people in different ...

Today (September 4) is Labor Day. The national holiday celebrates the laborers in the United States, those who toil every day to make sure bridges are safe and infrastructure is up to par. If we don’t ...

This is James Taylor with Theatre Talk. The revisions mainly amount to updates: replacing the newspaper delivery boy with a fast-food delivery guy, sprinkling in references to e-mail and cell-phones, ...

I'll accept any excuse to take a day off, and if the government wants to have a holiday that celebrates work, that's fine by me. How's about 15 weeks of vacation a year while we're at it? But we here ...

Elsewhere, songs track movement itself: young men leaving with the dry-season wind, rivers in flood separating families. Along cold North Sea coasts, herring workers, known as the "gutters," sang ...

The Pretenders’ Back On the Chain Gang is one of the great pop-rock songs of the early ’80s – but while it feels upbeat in terms of its key and tempo, its lyrics tell a different story. Written by ...