December 13, 2009
Bah, Humbug: It's an Old Refrain, but There Are Better Holiday Songs
Bob Dylan's Christmas album has triggered derision as well as some praise from academic fans.
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Bob Dylan's Christmas album has triggered derision as well as some praise from academic fans.
Each December, holiday music saturates public spaces and the airwaves and can seem inescapable, interminable, intolerable.
You may at times find yourself empathizing with Oliver Cromwell, who in 1647 barred Christmas carols as sinful and pagan.
Even if yours is less pinched a judgment, you might get better advice on how to help your ears through the holiday season by consulting scholars of music and musicology.
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