Jason Hamacher wasn't trained as a photographer, a musicologist or a member of a religious community. The former Frodus drummer simply felt... Before War, A Punk Drummer Preserved Syrian Chants Before ...

A friend passed on to me a must-listen Fresh Air interview with Jason Hamacher, an American punk drummer who went to Syria just before the war to record ancient Sufi and Christian liturgical music.

Medieval chant books and the parchment they were made of were designed to last a long time — so long, that pages of them can outlast the book itself. Across medieval Europe, monks and nuns and clergy ...

Rachael Kohn: What you're hearing is Gregorian Chant. But it seems Pope Gregory the 1st, known as The Great, had little if anything to do with it. Hello, this is The Ark, and I'm Rachael Kohn. The ...

Pope Benedict XVI may be the ‘rock star’ attraction of World Youth Day Sydney 2008 (WYD08), but many headline and emerging artists will also take centre stage during the week. More than 165 ...

Jennifer Bain receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Anna de Bakker does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...

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