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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) A Fourth Of July Salute To Patriotic Movies
Hollywood has a long history of paying tribute to the nation's glory. FOR TWO GENERATIONS in my family, the required Fourth of July movie-viewing experience has been "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942),...(Continue Reading)Nazik al-Mala'ika's poetry and its critical reception in the West - Modern Iraqi Literature in English Translation
Iraqi Arab poet Nazik al-Mala'ika is a popular figure in Arab literature not just because of his use of creative, experimental poetry. She has also been ......(Continue Reading)A Veterans' Day of tribute
As young soldiers and sailors, they fought in the Ardennes forests, the Pacific waters off Midway, the jungles of Khe Sanh, and the mountainous terrain ......(Continue Reading)The Song Is Ended - analysis of pop music today
On a fine summer day the inhabitants of the Wiltshire valley where I live gathered in a neighbor's garden to celebrate the Queen's jubilee. There was ......(Continue Reading)
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