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.
Spontaneous generation is one of those wrong theories that clutter the basements of the biological sciences and that now look so very obviously wrong that it is hard to see how anyone could have taken them seriously in the first place. Why wouldn’t it occur to anyone that flies might be laying eggs that were too small for us to see? How simple would the crucial experiment be? What I have tried to do in much of my work is to turn this ‘obvious wrongness’ on its head—why, exactly, does it seem so obviously wrong?—and see what the new picture that emerges from that inquiry says about science and our belief in its results.Daryn Lehoux, Interview of November 13, 2017
It’s commonplace to say that humor is subjective, since what’s funny to you might not be funny to me. But humor is also a loaded concept. If you – or your people – have no sense of humor, or the wrong one, that means you’re less rational, tolerant, understanding, or civilized. You don’t get it. Or, worse, you lack something human. Modern Chinese debates about humor were very much caught up with these fundamental questions of value.Christopher Rea, Interview of October 26, 2016
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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?