Readers recommend songs about the weekend: The results

Is the weekend all about existential panic or self-actualisation? It depends who you listen to, of courseThe weekend is 132 years old, give or take. It turns out that, like the Nintendo DS, this cherished modern ideal of leisure time postdates the industrial revolution. It was thanks only to the march of the railways and the strengthening of collective bargaining that, in the 1870s, Saturday was first allowed to join Sunday as a day during which the avoidance of work would be tolerated, and we w...

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