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Interesting Times is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett. It is the seventeenth book in the Discworld series and is set in the Aurient (a fictional analogue of the Orient). [1] The title refers to the English expression, "may you live in interesting times", which is typically presented as a translation from a traditional Chinese ...
Research by philologist Garson O'Toole shows a probable origin in the mind of Austen Chamberlain's father Joseph Chamberlain dating around the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Specifically, O'Toole cites the following statement Joseph made during a speech in 1898: I think that you will all agree that we are living in most interesting times.
Though relatively little was written about the Anthology during the first years after it was released (the first known press reference to the collection was in the folk music magazine Sing Out! in 1958, which focused on Clarence Ashley’s "The Coo Coo") [33] musicians and writers tell of how much of an impact it had on them at the time. [34 ...
Launched in June 2013, The Full English is a folk archive of 44,000 records and over 58,000 digitised images; it is the world's biggest digital archive of traditional music and dance tunes. [1] The archive brings together 19 collections from noted archivists, including Lucy Broadwood, Percy Grainger, Cecil Sharp and Ralph Vaughan Williams. [1]
Interesting Times is the third album by High Tide. Two original members, Tony Hill and Simon House, reformed the name. Two original members, Tony Hill and Simon House, reformed the name. It was originally released as a mail order cassette, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and later reissued on CD and vinyl with two bonus tracks.
The Wisconsin Folk Song Recording Project is a University of Wisconsin and Library of Congress sponsored project carried out by Helene Stratman-Thomas and Leland A. Coon to record folk songs. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The collection includes recordings, notes, and photographs gathered from 1937 to 1946. [ 3 ] "
Gordon accepted and used the Adventure column to collect information on traditional American music from the magazine's readers. [ 1 ] Gordon was the founding head of the Archive of American Folk Song (later the Archive of Folk Culture, which became part of the American Folklife Center ) at the Library of Congress in 1928.
In 1950, Clayton's unusual musical background caught the attention of Helen Hartness Flanders, the wife of U.S. Senator Ralph E. Flanders of Vermont and an internationally recognized folk music authority. Flanders showed up at Clayton's house one day with a tape recorder while he was home from college, and she recorded 11 of his songs.