In this article, I look at how popular hymnody and the surrounding devotional and liturgical practices changed after the Second Vatican Council in Hungary. The songs amongst authoritarian, atheistic circumstances sounded astonishingly similar to the emerging "folk mass movement". The discourse analysis ...
Billie Holiday, American singer, songwriter, composer. Nicknamed "Lady Day", Billie Holiday is the daughter of a traveling musician father. His childhood, deprived of education, included a poor life. She was raped at the age of 11 and was given boarding at a Catholic school. ...
doi:10.1016/0363-8111(92)90053-2Quentin J. SchultzePublic Relations ReviewSchultze, Quentin J. 1992. "Catholic v. Protestant: Mass-mediated Legitimation of Popular Evangelicalism in Guatemala." Public Relations Review 18 (3): 257-263.
The rhythmic pattern of “Tokyo Ondo” omes from geisha party music which is accompanied by shamisen and small taiko drums (kotsuzumi). Unlike their performance indoors for selected audience, ondo is typically played outdoors for the open public. In the center of circle of dancing mass, one se...
In 1950, Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation that had over 4,500 nuns and was active in 133 countries in 2012. The congregation manages homes for people who are dying of HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis. It also runs soup kitchens, dispensaries...
Curious what names are trending in your home state? Keep reading to see if your name made the top five -- or to find inspiration for naming your baby. Alabama Vasilyev Alexandr // Shutterstock Alabama - #1. Ava (for girls, 293 babies born); William (for boys, 369 babies born) ...
Tinos, the name for both the island and its main city, might be described as ecumenical, as it is important to the Greek Orthodox and Catholic religions. Greek pilgrims come here twice annually to pray at the church of Panagia Megalochari or Blessed Virgin Mary. The island also has 40 tr...
In 1865 he became abbot in the Roman Catholic Church. Liszt became renowned throughout Europe during the 19th century for his great skill as a performer. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age and perhaps the greatest pianist of all ...
In the 1980s he converted to the Catholic faith. Lindgren began as a poet in 1965 but had to wait until 1982 for his breakthrough, with the novel The Way of a Serpent (Swedish: Ormens väg på hälleberget). Lindgren's work was translated into more than thirty languages and...
Two outside musical influences forever changed the position of music in Vietnamese life: the instruction of Western classical music, and the arrival of Western popular song. Classical music achieved its foothold through the Catholic church and Catholic schools, as well as through the opening of Ha...