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Sacred words, profane music? The Free Monks as a musical phenomenon in contemporary Greek Orthodoxy
The Free Monks (Eleftheroi) are a Greek Orthodox rock band of black-robed monks. Being the first of its kind in Greece, the group has produced popular ......(Continue Reading) Rolling along: three decades of Bruce Cockburn's music
Somewhere between pure pop music--music that succeeds or fails on the basis of its popularity--and genre music lies a kind of music that critic Robert ......(Continue Reading)Freedom's song: Chris Moss celebrates the enduring tradition of Latin American protest song - music
When I arrived in Buenos Aires in 1991, much of the music being played on the radio was imported, middle-of-the-road rock. Radio stations were paid to play it, and it featured incessantly on many o...(Continue Reading)Musical lives: Don and Emily Saliers on the religious power of song - Interview
DON SALIERS holds the William R. Cannon Distinguished Chair in Theology and Worship at Emory University and directs the Master of Sacred Music Program....(Continue Reading)The lord's songs in a strange land; two histories dig down to the roots of gospel music and the culture of sound in African American life
People Get Ready! A New History of Black Gospel Music by Robert Darden Continuum International Publishing Group October 2004, $24.95, ISBN 0-826-41436-2 ......(Continue Reading)
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