Below are three power ballads—a hallmark of the '80s—that could've only come out of that decade. Revisit these bygone hits.

Learn about the history and conventions of ballads with this guide for KS3 English students aged 11-14 from BBC Bitesize.

The best example of this would be Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You. Musicologist David Metzer calls this power ballad a 'continuous escalation' - and probably the key to its massive ...

Mountain ballads have been a part of American mountain culture since the earliest English and Scottish settlers moved there more than 200 years ago. They were passed down through the oral ...

Parodies of literary ballads changed over the course of the nineteenth century, as did their implicit commentaries on practices of poetic revival in general. In the 1870s and 1880s a focused reaction ...

These rock love ballads were written about the real-life relationships of the rock stars who produced them.

Set against the lore of the murder ballad, international bestselling author Janet Beard unspools a multigenerational tale about the triumphs and setbacks of the mountaineer women of East Tennessee ...