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High fidelity - Words and Music: a history of pop in the shape of a city - Book Review
Words and Music: a history of pop in the shape of a city Paul Morley Bloomsbury, 360pp, 12.99 [pounds sterling] Some years ago, I was in the habit ......(Continue Reading) Praying Twice: The Music and Words of Congregational Song. - Review - book review
Praying Twice: The Music and Words of Congregational Song. By Brian Wren. Westminster John Knox, 385 pp., $22.95. In one of his earliest hymns, Brian Wren wrote that "we will not question or re...(Continue Reading)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)The fan: I can't make out the words of the Euro music except for "LASAGNE!"
I should have realised it was going to be an unusual game as soon as I arrived. "Can I look in your bag, sir," grunted a security woman. I ......(Continue Reading)O politics where art thou? - The First Words … - politics and popular music - Editorial
Over the years, I've fielded calls from a number of newspaper reporters querying one aspect of folk music (or the "folk revival") or another. A recurrent ......(Continue Reading)
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