Author : Adler
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1967-09-25
Category : Singing
ISBN : 9780816604517
Phonetics and Diction in Sing by Adler Pdf
Though it has often been passionately criticized--as fraudulent, exploitative, even pagan--the American funeral home has become nearly as inevitable as death itself, an institution firmly embedded in our culture. But how did the funeral home come to hold such a position? What is its history? And is it guilty of the charges sometimes leveled against it?. In Rest in Peace, Gary Laderman traces the origins of American funeral rituals, from the evolution of embalming techniques during and after the Civil War and the shift from home funerals to funeral homes at the turn of the century, to the incre.
