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Bright Balkan Morning: Romani Lives and the Power of Music in Greek Macedonia. - book review By Charles and Angeliki Vellou Keil and Dick Blau Wesleyan University Press, (Middletown, Ct), 2002, ISBN 0819564885, 352 pages, pbk. $34.95 This book certainly lives up to its title. Although mu...(Continue Reading) Instrumental change: Wigmore Hall in London has just reopened after a [pounds sterling]3m facelift. But was it necessary, or even desirable? In my lifetime--and I'm not yet of pensionable age--extraordinarily large sums of money have been spent on refurbishing a boutique concert hall that ......(Continue Reading)At last! A pill giving power to the poor - morning-after pill Control over one's reproductive system is a class issue, writes Carol Sarler Jeannette Kupfermann, white, middle class, blessed with education and, ......(Continue Reading)Dirty dancing: in part two of our Take Back the Music series, we go behind the scenes with video girls. As pimp culture goes mainstream, are we getting They're what male fantasies are made of: One brown-skinned sister, wearing painted-on jeans and four-inch stilettos, is as tall as a runway model but ......(Continue Reading)A little help from his friends: three decades after forming the Mumps with Lance Loud, Kristian Hoffman releases a CD of duets with the likes of Rufus It's 9 o'clock in the morning in Los Angeles the day after the release party for Kristian Hoffman's latest CD, a series of duets titled &, and the musician ......(Continue Reading)
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