How a 19th century instrument helped to shape New World culture.

The Estey Organ Company (1846-1960) produced over a half-million reed organs and 3,000 pipe organs in Brattleboro, Vermont. Dennis Waring's scholarly treatise o

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Tuning the World tells the unknown story of how the musical pitch A 440 became the global norm. Now commonly accepted as the point of reference for musicians in

How do people in an intensely multicultural city live alongside one another while maintaining clear boundaries? This question is at the core of The Cultural Wor