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Frank Gehry, public artist: a year after its opening, Disney Hall is a huge popular success, a spectacular icon that draws crowds to downtown Los Angeles.
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To understand the impact Morrissey and his band The Smiths had on British popular culture when they first emerged in the autumn of 1983, one must first ......(Continue Reading)Sex & music has it gone too far? backlash over lyrics, violence and threat to young women grows
THERE'S always been a connection between sex and music, but a new generation and new generations of technology have pushed the connection to the limits, ......(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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