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Old romantics: William Cook recalls the era of miners' strikes, hair mousse and great pop music
Gatecrash any office party this Christmas and the chances are that much of the music will be at least a generation out of date. Nothing evokes lost youth so vividly as the music of our teenage year...(Continue Reading) More hungry boys - Great Depression recalled - Column
An eight-month excursion as a freight-riding hobo during 1933 is described. The would-be vagabond, then 16, ultimately decided to return home to Texas....(Continue Reading)Songs of the soul: the Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1935 - Special Report - Statistical Data Included
HOT NIGHTS and cool jazz ... steamy sidewalks and fancy dressers ... songs of the soul and songs of the body ... the lilt of gentle laughter and the ......(Continue Reading)O say can you sing? - Flashback: to know nothing of what happened before you were born is to remain ever a child—Cicero - appreciation of The Star-Spangled
When Francis Scott Key, a poetical lawyer, rendered in verse his account of American resistance to the September 1814 British assault on Fort McHenry, ......(Continue Reading)In the Shadows of the Ancients
The Antiquities Act enables ruins to continue telling their age-old tales WHEN NIGHT DESCENDS AND SOFT BREEZES BLOW through the Pinyon pines - and when ......(Continue Reading)
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