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 ...

Christmas song collections bring together the most beloved holiday tunes that celebrate joy, warmth, and togetherness. These songs, sung by many famous artists over the years, have become part of ...

Choirs sing music, writes Oxford professor Andrew Gant in "The Carols of Christmas," while everyone else sings carols. These holiday songs are part participation sport, part time machine and ...

We have a love/hate relationship with Christmas carols. By the time Thanksgiving has rolled past, the limp versions favored by malls and their ilk have sucked the life out of even the best of them.

From the joyful triumph of ‘O Come All Ye Faithful’ to the pure poetry of ‘Good King Wenceslas’, here are the lyrics to 20 of the greatest Christmas carols ever written. Even though we sing Christmas ...

"It's the most wonderful time of the year." Indeed, Christmas is approaching, and there’s no denying that it’s chock full of Insta-worthy potential. Between the stunning tree adorned with sparkling ...

understandings of oral repetition, usually in the form of song lyrics. Christmas carols and other holiday songs, rife as they are with seldom-heard words and phrasings and clever wordplay, are fertile ...