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Written out of history: many of civilisation's crowning glories originated in the east. Yet you'd be unlikely to learn this from reading western historians.
Great Ideas series Various authors Penguin, [pounds sterling]3.99 each Human Accomplishment: the pursuit of excellence in the arts and sciences ......(Continue Reading) The rite of return: Pushkin's poetry, Tolstoy's novels, Stravinsky's music—Russia's golden age gave the people the spirit to endure the darkest moments
In 1962, Stravinsky accepted a Soviet invitation to visit the country of his birth. It was exactly 50 years since he had left Russia and there was a ......(Continue Reading)Another history of bluegrass: the segregation of popular music in the United States, 1820-1900 - 1
Categories in any case are never watertight, but flow ceaselessly into one another.... Musical interactions do not occur at random, but are indicators ......(Continue Reading)Reader's Guide to Music: History, Theory, Criticism. - Review - book review
Murray Steib, editor. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. [pound]95.00. 891 pages. ISBN 1-57958-143-9. The aim of this vast reference book is 'to provide some ......(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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