The Soundworld of Harriet Tubman

The Soundworld of Harriet Tubman

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Bill Kopp, "What's the Big Idea: 30 Great Concept Albums" (Hozac, 2025)

As long as there has been music, the form has been used as a vehicle for storytelling. Artists who have something to say often find that putting it into music is the ideal means of communicating thoughts and feelings to others. And the concept-album form is a logical extension of ...  Show more

Hilary French, "Ballroom: A People’s History of Dancing" (Reaktion Books, 2022)

In the early twentieth century, American ragtime and the Parisian tango fuelled a dancing craze in Britain. Public ballrooms were built throughout the country, providing a glamorous setting for dancing. The new English style, defined in the 1920s and followed by the films of Fred ...  Show more

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