Accent on Music

With a sweet kiss from Sally: fantasy and reality collided when Allied investigators hunted down the seductive Nazi broadcaster known to GIs as Axis Sally.(Mildred Gillars and Rita Zucca)(Report)
World War II; 1/1/2010; 3429 words; ...next half hour we've got some music that will help you forget them...behind the microphone, the swing music she played kept them tuning...programming--largely organ music--and severely censored news...tuned, but the thick Teutonic accents of the German newscasters spoiled...

Food for thought: race, region, identity, and foodways in the American South.(South Polls)(Essay)
Southern Cultures; 12/22/2009; 7665 words; ...those people who, for example, eat grits, listen to country music, and attend Baptist churches more often than other Americans...explains, in a time of declining regional identity, when southern accents and lifestyles become increasingly rare, southern food is one...

Three on parade.(Music)(American soprano Aprile Millo, French painist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, and American cellist Alisa Weilerstein)
National Review; 12/21/2009; 2072 words; ...Aimard is the embodiment of PC in music. Nonetheless, he has genuine...though he were examining the music under a microscope. After Mozart...although it should be possible to accent without jabbing as much as this...example). Aimard had sheet music and a page turner (also in...

Pam gives panto an added bounce
The Independent - London; 12/17/2009; 763 words; ...the last show he wrote?) and a slapstick comic number, the music is the usual raucous pop stuff and the dances perfunctory...ring. Lithe and fetching, with a mysterious East European accent and a manner that is at once sexy and a detached tease of sexiness...

Who would be the Johnny Hallyday of Northern Ireland?
Belfast Telegraph; 12/15/2009; 834 words; ...even, admirably, hang on to their local accents but, really, do they speak for us like...admirable but officially approved. As for music? Van the Man's albums spoke of a peculiarly...exactly? The most popular type of local music is country/Irish/showbands, which...