On his book Secular Devotion: Afro-Latin Music and Imperial Jazz
Cover Interview of December 04, 2008
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December 08, 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 23, 2011
I never thought this about classical music and jazz and military. This is really profound.
[T]he Holocaust transformed our whole way of thinking about war and heroism. War is no longer a proving ground for heroism in the same way it used to be. Instead, war now is something that we must avoid at all costs—because genocides often take place under the cover of war. We are no longer all potential soldiers (though we are that too), but we are all potential victims of the traumas war creates. This, at least, is one important development in the way Western populations envision war, even if it does not always predominate in the thinking of our political leaders.Carolyn J. Dean, Interview of February 01, 2011
The dominant premise in evolution and economics is that a person is being loyal to natural law if he or she attends to self’s interest and welfare before being concerned with the needs and demands of family or community. The public does not realize that this statement is not an established scientific principle but an ethical preference. Nonetheless, this belief has created a moral confusion among North Americans and Europeans because the evolution of our species was accompanied by the disposition to worry about kin and the collectives to which one belongs.Jerome Kagan, Interview of September 17, 2009
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December 08, 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 23, 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?