On his book Secular Devotion: Afro-Latin Music and Imperial Jazz
Cover Interview of December 05, 2008
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December 09, 2011
Western pop music is MUCH more of a world music than classical or jazz. More money behind it and found on every continent and (almost) every single country. The same cannot be said for Western classical and jazz.
September 24, 2011
I never thought this about classical music and jazz and military. This is really profound.
[M]odern art still commonly refers to a rather narrow range of meaning and scope. It basically focuses on developments in Paris (Impressionism etc.) in the nineteenth century, and to selected Euro-American movements in the twentieth century (Cubism, Abstract Expressionism etc). But if we understand modernity as a socially transformative condition that was in force across much of the world from the nineteenth century on, how are we to understand artistic practices that were associated with these momentous changes?Iftikhar Dadi, Interview of March 26, 2012
The two world wars of the twentieth century were a product of the dislocations brought about of modernization in an environment where great power competition and the drive for hegemony were conducted primarily by violent means. Now that this era has passed in Europe and is receding in much of the Pacific rim, and hegemony achieved by force is no longer considered a legitimate ambition, the security requirements and fears of great powers should decline.Richard Ned Lebow, Interview of October 4, 2010
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December 09, 2011Western pop music is MUCH more of a world music than classical or jazz. More money behind it and found on every continent and (almost) every single country. The same cannot be said for Western classical and jazz.
September 24, 2011I never thought this about classical music and jazz and military. This is really profound.
August 04, 2011And where would baptist church music would fit?