The Composer Embalmed: Relic Culture from Piety to Kitsch Poetry_Gift_Guide But this was no fleeting

But this was no fleeting annoyance

Skoshie the Cat lives on the edge of a big forest - a forest that (everyone says) is full of strange

the American artist James Bidgood revolutionized photography in the 1960s

I remember the moment before

Intensely alive

The Composer Embalmed: Relic Culture from Piety to Kitsch Poetry_Gift_Guide But this was no fleetingThe first granular study of nineteenth century composer devotiona network of devotees who preserved tangible traces of composers through relics, rituals, pilgrimage, exhumation, and embalming. During the nineteenth century, music institutions promoted artworks they deemed timeless and made composers into figureheads of a lasting Western canon. Alongside this institutional face of the canon was a more intimate impulse to preserve, touch, and embrace