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This chapter discusses the beginnings of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. It first considers the construction of the Salt Lake Tabernacle on April 6, 1852, before turning to the school...

African American culture draws upon a rich body of traditions from Africa, Latin America, and the South, and folklore is fundamental to the African American heritage. The first wor...

This chapter focuses on Kentuckian Bill Stepp, who worked as a logger in his younger days, then later turned his energies to fiddling for neighborhood hoedowns. Stepp is the creati...

This volume offers modern perspectives, from a strong international team of scholars, on the perception of Anton Chekhov's works by three leading cultural figures of the Silver Age...

This publication puts forward the view that qualifications systems are useful tools for modernising education and training. National qualifications frameworks are treated as one as...

These essays present a view of English literature and drama in a context of humane literary studies: a critical ambience harking back to the Renaissance....

‘Indian Democracy’ is an attempt to understand the development of democratic polity in India....

‘Action!’ draws on the very best published and unpublished interviews of the ‘Bright Lights Film Journal’, and contains many gems, including the last ever interview given by Franco...