Our music superstars sounded and looked a little bit different, one woman, in particular. She was known as La Reina del Tex Mex, the Queen of Tejano music: Selena Quintanilla.
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This Palestinian hip hop group’s new record is a feminist rallying cry
DAM is making feminism its focus in its latest album.
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Bruce Springsteen looks for mercy and deliverance in new album ‘Western Stars’
Springsteen has created a sprawling sonic landscape that, in its best moments, feels like the soundtrack to a film you would love to see.
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The harrowing story of French nuns killed by the guillotine returns to the Metropolitan Opera
Originally written by Georges Bernanos, the “Dialogues of the Carmelites” was turned into an opera by the French composer Francis Poulenc.
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How gospel music helped me find my Catholic identity
My relationship with gospel music was forged not just on those Sunday mornings at home with Jackson and in church with my family but also on late nights in the backseat of a 1962 Chevy Bel Air sedan.
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Brandi Carlile’s Biblical imagination in ‘By the Way, I Forgive You’
What is there to gain from probing life’s wounds? Brandi Carlile has an answer in her new album.
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In the dead of winter, Helen Sung’s jazz feels like summertime
“Performing makes me feel vividly alive.”
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Advent Playlist: Classic hymns to help you wait in hope
Last year, ‘America’ published “An (unconventional) Advent Playlist.” This is my (much more conventional) Advent playlist.
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The Velvet Underground: rock’s first cult band
In a new exhibit, we are treated to a kind of shrine to the band’s origins.
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Is ‘Silent Night’ the greatest Christmas song ever?
On Christmas Eve 1818, in the church of St. Nicholas in Oberndorf near Salzburg, “Stille Nacht” (“Silent Night”) was sung for the first time. Today, the carol has been translated into some 300 languages.