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7190s Indie Rock Bands and Albums: Tortoise and the Post-Rock Sound
If you aren't familiar with Tortoise, the first question you probably have after reading this hub is "What on earth is post-rock?" Let me start by stating that the answer to that question depends on who you are asking. This writer, for example,...
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83Native American Perspectives: Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions on European American Culture and Religion
Living in America today, we often take for granted several things about ourselves, our country, and our relationship with the land we live on. This is not a bad thing. It is, in fact, only human. However, we should not always limit ourselves...
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80Literature and Philosophy: Cartesian Dualism, David Hume, and Immanuel Kant's Copernican Revolution
Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) is one of the most significant philosophers in Modern philosophy. This is because of many reasons far too broad for an article of this scope to examine. We can, however, examine one of his major contributions to...
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84Literature and Philosophy: Cartesian Dualism in Rene Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy
The history of modern philosophy has been shaped, for the most part, since its infancy by the problems Renee Descartes encountered in his Meditations on First Philosophy and subsequent philosophers’...
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74American Literature: Contemporary views on Charlotte Temple
Perhaps the first American best-selling novel, Charlotte Temple has been called "the biggest bestseller in American History until Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852" by Anne Douglas,...
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77American Literature and Culture: The Roots of Manifest Destiny
The discovery of the New World and the experience of colonialism in America produced a society independent of the Europe it left behind. This independence, forever cemented by the Declaration of Independence in 1776, was born from the common...
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7820th Century Classical Music: Analysis of Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber
Samuel Barber (1910-1981) composed Adagio for Strings during a very successful period of his work from 1936 to 1938.[1] It was originally the second movement of a string quartet before Barber rearranged it...
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7390s Indie Rock Albums and Bands: The Flaming Lips' Parking Lot Experiment
The year 1996 found popular music search for a replacement for the dying alternative scene which it had about used up after cashing in on the immense popularity of the popular musical movement that has come to...
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6920th Century Composers: Harry Partch, "The Hobo Composer"
Harry Partch (1901-1974) was a visionary American composer who found the inspiration for most of his mature work in the ideal of the hobo. Partch was born to parents who had recently moved back from China...
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79Literature, Philosophy and the Absurd: Voltaire's Candide
At the age of sixty-five, Voltaire, who had already established a name for himself as a philosopher, satirist and playwright, published his most famous work, Candide. The fictional work is a farce on the popular romances written at the time....
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