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French Cultural Politics and Music: From the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War. - Review - book review
French Cultural Politics and Music: From the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War. By Jane F. Fulcher. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, ......(Continue Reading) Franz Ferdinand: named after the Austrian archduke whose assassination triggered World War I, these Scottish hell-raisers are causing another kind of international
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In 1941, several months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, a new Irving Berlin song appeared on jukeboxes across the United States. Berlin and his sponsors ......(Continue Reading)In the wake of Robert Lowell: can today's poets seize the moment as their great predecessors did during the First World War and the fighting in Vietnam?
Weekly assembly at my old school in Essex was a sombre, repetitive occasion. A recital of the Lord's Prayer, a homily or two from one of the senior masters, the obligatory warnings about the conseq...(Continue Reading)Baptists, music, and World War II
Southern Baptists have always been a singing people with great diversity in our music. The types of music used in our churches has varied largely according to their location and tradition--urban...(Continue Reading)
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