Religious origins make for some tantalizing tunes
| 12:21 PM Feb 12, 2009
Three minutes is about the length of my attention span—and the average pop song—and within its limits I have come to expect a dance party, a manic heavy-metal freakout, or an angry but ultimately hopeful statement about love. I could never be a product of the classical era. I need pop music. But there are ...
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