The potency of "It's Not Right But It's Okay," Whitney Houston's triumphant 1999 call out single, hangs from a tiny ad lib she deploys with surgical efficiency. She uses it to puncture the song's ...

The Buddha used to ask his disciples to do a certain meditation: “Go to the street and watch everybody passing by, coming and going on the street. See exactly what is happening. Don’t listen to their ...

When writing recently about election-year protest songs, I was thinking how in a different, more saturated age, no political song is going to have the impact of even a “Where Have All the Flowers Gone ...

After reading “A Time of Wonder,” go back and read some of PTC the lines that contain unusual vocabulary. See if your child can tell what the word means from its use in the story. Some examples are ...

Spotify Wrapped knows pretty much everything about you — which artists know how to make your cry, which songs you spin when the door is closed, and now, what your taste in music says about your ...

Lyrics can be pored over, their meanings endlessly debated, but non-verbal vocals, like Whitney's "uhhh," contain multitudes that somehow get straight to the point. They make sense on an instinctual ...