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Pop music in the shadow of irony - Variations on a Descending Theme
Bright young people who would have once expected to go into business or law, but now becoming a pop musician holds an allure. One such young pop music success, Chris Holmes, is profiled, and the music...(Continue Reading) National identity in Brazilian popular music
The samba of my homeland Makes you mellow When it's played you can't help but sway. When it's danced, everybody shakes Whoever doesn't like samba a good fellow can not be He's ei...(Continue Reading)A campaign that smells like a sausage: France's electoral system, a gaullist relic, was an accident waiting to happen. It has turned politics into low
With some delicacy, the erstwhile French president Edouard Herriot held that politics in France should, like the tripe sausage, "smell a little like ......(Continue Reading)An american original: best known for his pioneering "Anthology of American Folk Music," artist and mystic polymath Harry Smith was the subject of a recent
Cult figure Harry Smith (1923-1991) was a suitably idiosyncratic, 20th-century Renaissance man, working as an abstract film-maker, painter, musicologist, ......(Continue Reading)Time for some stirring music - labor unions - Statistical Data Included
Unions should be more boastful. Unionised workplaces are not just better for employees; they also make higher profits. Only just over a third of employees ......(Continue Reading)
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