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Abstract   The authors, faculty members at Northeastern University and Boston University, highlight the shifting values and priorities of...

A snapshot in time of English folk music, queer visibility, and gender non-conformity Alex Garden is a fiddle player, guitarist,...

Introduction No one knows about Amir Tataloo. Bahman Ghobadi’s film No One Knows About Persian Cats (2009) could be seen as a dynamic...

Modern-day Singapore prides itself as a ‘global city’ with a commendable level of economic stability as a result of its sustained...

Bury [music] so deep under the earth that no sound or echo of it may rise again. —Attributed to the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb[1]   Over...

As described by The Arts Desk , Dr Laura Bowler is 'a triple threat composer-performer-provocatrice'. She is the vocalist in Ensemble...

William Christie is an American-born French conductor and harpsichordist. He read History of Art at Harvard and then Music at Yale, where...

1. Introduction Music theory is white. —Philip Ewell Thus begins Philip Ewell’s article ‘Music Theory and the White Racial Frame’.[1] His...

The forging of a life in culture, economics, and security   My formative years were marked by my parents’ hopes and dreams that I would...

One of Adolf Hitler’s favourite musicians was Richard Wagner. His thunderous compositions were meant to instil a violent pride within the...

Fig 1. Sacred and Profane Love (Titian 1514, oil on canvas). Wikimedia Commons. <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tiziano_-_Amor_S...