Christmas carols are among the oldest songs people still sing, according to Dr. Keely Rhodes, an assistant professor of music at USC Aiken. Rhodes presented “Music and Merriment: Origins of the ...

An English bishop is pushing back after a church choir sang a "woke" version of a popular Christmas carol injecting LGBT and "inclusive" language into the song. "God rest you queer and questioning, ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Christmas carols are one of our oldest holiday traditions. In fact, they probably predate the holiday. Music itself is ancient, dating back to before the written word. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Caroling began in the 13th century but did not yet involve singing. Better known as "wassailing," this form of caroling was ...

Do you know what bobtails and wassailing are? We have experts explain the meaning of those weird Christmas carol lyrics. Many of our most popular holiday songs are from the 19th century, when ...

“He who sings, pray twice,” St. Augustine, the famous 5th century bishop, once said. Since Christmas is a time for prayer and praise, it's no wonder that this special day (and all the days leading up ...

"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, the story of Ebenezer Scrooge written in 1843, is one of the most familiar literary works in the English language. Though Eleanor Farjeon wrote in an ...

Christmas music has a long and storied history beginning centuries ago with pagan rituals. Those traditions evolved with St. Francis of Assisi’s Nativity plays in the 13th century and survived Puritan ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Christmas carols are ...