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French Cultural Politics and Music: From the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War. - Review - book review
French Cultural Politics and Music: From the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War. By Jane F. Fulcher. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, ......(Continue Reading) Small World: why one town stays unplugged - War of the worlds: Part Two - Barre, Vermont
When you think about Vermount, Barre is not the town you're imagining. Main Street has seen better days. There are few covered bridges and fewer rusticators ......(Continue Reading)In the wake of Robert Lowell: can today's poets seize the moment as their great predecessors did during the First World War and the fighting in Vietnam?
Weekly assembly at my old school in Essex was a sombre, repetitive occasion. A recital of the Lord's Prayer, a homily or two from one of the senior masters, the obligatory warnings about the conseq...(Continue Reading)Baptists, music, and World War II
Southern Baptists have always been a singing people with great diversity in our music. The types of music used in our churches has varied largely according to their location and tradition--urban...(Continue Reading)Official! It really is a mad, mad, mad, mad world: dark thoughts about humanity's future don't usually get to the top of the Christmas singles charts.
The Christmas number one can signify not only the taste but also the mood of the nation. Record companies know this, too, and market their product with ......(Continue Reading)
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