Merry Local Christmas
Yuletide tunes from particular places
Merry Christmas! Today I’m sharing my Christmas piece in The Bulwark this year—every year I write one major Christmas piece for a magazine—about Christmas songs from, and mostly played in, a particular state or part of the country.
It’s a fun piece with some neat cultural trivia. (It’s not about how our culture is too old and jaded to write happy Christm…
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