The Lyre of Orpheus

  • The Lyre of Orpheus: Popular Music, the Sacred, and the Profane
    The Lyre of Orpheus: Popular Music, the Sacred, and the Profane
    By Christopher Partridge

    Reilly, Edward J., American Popular Culture Through History: The 1960s (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2003). ... Richardson, James, Joel Best and David Bromley (eds.) ... Rojek, Chris, Celebrity (London: Reaktion Books, 2001).

  • The Lyre of Orpheus
    The Lyre of Orpheus
    By Robertson Davies

    The lives of a rich couple become entwined with those of a music student and a priest when they decide to underwrite the completion of E.T.A. Hoffmann's unfinished opera, Arthur of Britain.

  • The Lyre of Orpheus
    The Lyre of Orpheus
    By Robertson Davies

    The Foundation, looking for a worthy undertaking upon which to expend its considerable monies, decides to fund the doctoral work of Hulda Schnakenburg, an extraordinarily talented music student. Her task...

  • The Lyre of Orpheus
    The Lyre of Orpheus
    By Robertson Davies

    Baroque and deliciously funny, this third book in The Cornish Trilogy shows Robertson Davies at his very considerable best.

  • The Lyre of Orpheus: Popular Music, the Sacred, and the Profane
    By Christopher Hugh Partridge

    His aim in this book is to introduce a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives to be used in the study of religion and popular music and popular music subcultures.