didactic poetry

Instruments used in the songs include drumset, djun-djun, Udu drums, metal guiro, Thai sticks, bata drums, cajon, surdo, shekere, klong yaw (a drum from Thailand, like a djembe), doumbek, asonga (hybrid standing drum by Remo), tubano (another drum by Remo), and various exotic cymbals.

As well as the church and its sexton, the market house is worth a gander, while the hop fields and orchards are reminding one of Kent, for we are in another Garden of England.

At the same time, American intellectual and artistic elites, … help create a sophisticated, if sometimes affectatious urban mentality.