Christmas music — the umbrella term for songs whose lyrics or motifs allude to the Christian holiday — is disregarded as pedestrian mall music, bereft of artistic merit. It is often pigeonholed into the same perfunctory and repetitive playlist as such novelty tunes as “Happy Birthday.”
However, as an extensively broad genre, brimming with sundry musical styles, Christmas music comes packaged in many forms: swing, jazz, soul, rock, pop, and even orchestral. Moreover, Christmas music, just as Christmas movies, has its many misses and disposable clichés — 2004’s Christmas with the Kranks comes to mind — but it also has its brilliantly composed classics such as It’s a Wonderful Life (1946).
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