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Just for fun? Language choice in German popular music
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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)Sex, Drugs & Techno Music: Why the rap against Ecstasy has a familiar ring to it
LAST SPRING, THE Chicago City Council decided "to crack down on wild rave parties that lure youngsters into environments loaded with dangerous club drugs, underage drinking and sometimes predatory...(Continue Reading)
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