A weighty and manifold tradition of discourse contending with issues of materialism and materiality has long been present in humanistic scholarship. The materialist spirituality of Baruch Spinoza...
Read MoreScholarship on the refrain in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries has often been limited to romantic song genres, hypothesized origins of the refrain, and poetic traditions. In...
Read MoreWhether the sonic scope measures large or small, both musical and non-musical sounds cut through physical barriers in ways that visual images cannot. In Music, Piety, and Propaganda:...
Read MoreThe first annual 46664 Campaign mega-concert event took place in Cape Town, South Africa, on November 29, 2003, launching Nelson Mandela’s 46664 Foundation and his new movement offering public health education...
Read MoreThe history of American symphonic music is a well-rehearsed tale that typically begins at the end of the nineteenth century with Antonin Dvořák’s sojourn to the United...
Read MoreLong before Arby’s used Barry White’s bedroom raps to sell beef sandwiches, Plato and St. Augustine fretted about music’s ability to deceive us. Anathema to the rock...
Read MoreStuart Hall, Cultural Studies pioneer, argued that thinking of culture always as a return to roots misses the point and proposed turning to analyze “culture as routes....
Read MoreWhen the major Hollywood studios began the transition to synchronized sound in the latter part of the 1920s, they were forced to deal with the new possibilities...
Read MoreHow often do you pay attention to the sounds of your environment when walking down the street or commuting to work? As Jacques Attali reminds us in Noise:...
Read MoreIn Music and the Armenian Diaspora, Sylvia Angelique Alajaji traces the roots and routes of a diaspora whose homeland borders were violently redrawn, and for whom the exilic...
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