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, ...

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 ...

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 ...