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Magazine. Other outlets and publications to write or discuss the genre include: NPR, American Songwriter, The Vinyl District, Stereo Subversion, Philadelphia Citypaper, and The Colorado Springs Independent, and mentions of it have been made on The Huffington Post (in an interview with Arcuragi), The DCist, and live on NPR's "All Songs Considered".
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Huffington Post), the Death component and tie to the music is "anything that sees the inevitability of death as a reason to celebrate the special wonder that is being alive and sentient. That's the hope with the songs. . . . It is exciting that we can reflect upon it as intelligent life and do something to make that wonder manifest."
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February 2012, Professor M. Cooper Harriss of Virginia Tech published an article, in association with the University of Chicago School Of Divinity, about the Death Gospel genre and its connection to modern culture. In
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English âgodspellâ which translates as âbringing the good word or good newsâ. The theme of Death, serves as the common denominator of all human beings - the inevitable shared fate that makes life so wonderful, much like music itself; a celebration. In Arcuragi's own
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English gĹdspel, from gĹd + spel , translating ecclesiastical Latin bona annuntiatio or bonus nuntius, used to gloss ecclesiastical Latin evangelium, from Greek euangelion âgood newsâ; after the vowel was shortened in Old English , the first syllable was mistaken for god
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