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...c.1940s–1950s. Photo: © Bradley Smith/Corbis. Although Selvon had published short stories and poems in his native Trinidad, it was not until after he settled in London that his career as a writer began to flourish. His first novel, A Brighter Sun, a story of Trinidadian rural life, was published in 1952, followed by another Caribbean-themed novel, An Island is a World...

...c. 1436 -88). His apprenticeship followed the established training of grinding and mixing paint pigments, the mixing of colours, studying their uses and preparing panel surfaces. He made studies of nudes and draped models in preparation for pictures and statues. He studied geometry, optics and perspective and also learnt the technical skills of foundry and metalwork. 1470...

...c.500 AD at the latest; written notation was also in use in China by this time (Widdess, 1995, pp. 4, 90; New Harvard, p. 547)), it is the case that very few non-Western traditions use notation in anything like the way Western art music does. In most cases where notation exists (as in India, for example), it is used only to keep an additional record of music which is...