Oy to the World
The Irish Times‘ Aengus Collins writes about two of my all-time faves: Christmas music and Alan Sparhawk.
My contribution:
Perhaps I’m wrong about the musical difference Christian belief might make. For instance, when I ask Andrew Beaujon, a journalist with US magazine Spin and author of Body Piercing Saved My Life, a book about Christian music in the US, he says he sees no correlation between Christianity and great Christmas music. “The greatest Christmas song of all time was written by a Jew,” he notes, referring to Irving Berlin’s ubiquitous White Christmas.
December 2nd, 2006 at 7:11 pm
To quote a Jewish friend…Oy vey!
One of my LEAST fave Christmas songs. Christmas songs SHOULD be about CHRIST…um, hence the name.
josh
December 3rd, 2006 at 6:31 am
Should birthday songs have to be about birth? (If so, I call dibs on the song about pitocin.) The holiday is called Christmas, and this is a song about the holiday. How we got there–well, that’s up for discussion.