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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)A Love Letter to an iPod Mini
Late last year I wrote a column about the Macintosh and its near brush with virus trouble. I received hundreds of e-mails telling me I was nuts (and worse)....(Continue Reading)Rock's Quarrel with Tradition: Popular Music's Carnival Comes to the Classroom
Introduction Scene: A music classroom at a junior high school. The beginning band class has just ended and the students are putting away their curricular ......(Continue Reading)
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