With Mariah Carey and Wham! saturating airwaves with their holiday tunes, it’s beginning to sound a lot like Christmas. But if all you want for Christmas is a reprieve from stereotypical Christmas ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If I may defer, however briefly, to the wisdom of the late Tom Petty, “Well, it’s Christmas all over again.”And for a lot of ...

We aren’t really sure why Christmas music is so controversial. Maybe it is its unrelenting ubiquity from Thanksgiving through the end of the year. It could be some of the overplayed, hideous songs ...

Christmas songs fill the airwaves every December, but most people don’t know the surprising stories behind these beloved tunes. Many classic Christmas songs have unexpected origins, from “Jingle Bells ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As a genre, Christmas music is more than just the classics. As a true connoisseur of the season and a fanatic who writes my own Christmas-themed newsletter, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Florian Walch, West Virginia University (THE CONVERSATION) With Mariah Carey and Wham!