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Sacred words, profane music? The Free Monks as a musical phenomenon in contemporary Greek Orthodoxy
The Free Monks (Eleftheroi) are a Greek Orthodox rock band of black-robed monks. Being the first of its kind in Greece, the group has produced popular ......(Continue Reading) Free culture vs. big media: Lawrence Lessig leads the charge to retake the public domain
Free culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, by Lawrence Lessig, New York: Penguin Press, 240 ......(Continue Reading)Disarming Words
Disarming Words How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, by U2 (lnterscope). This year sees a quarter century of U2 records and the band's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. However well deserved...(Continue Reading)The folk process: lyrics sent by our readers: new words to old tunes or snatches of a good song—different viewpoints, too
A labor festival is certainly a fine place to get significant songs based on folk melodies. The Western Workers Regional Labor Heritage Festival, held ......(Continue Reading)Imitations of Life: Two Centuries of Melodrama in Russia/Songs for Fat People: Affect, Emotion, and Celebrity in the Russian Popular Song, 1900-1955
Louise McReynolds and Joan Neuberger, eds. Imitations of Life: Two Centuries of Melodrama in Russia. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. x, 338 pp. Illustrations....(Continue Reading)
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