Writer Vijay M. Rajan delineates between base and artful propaganda, calling for the creation of lasting, nuanced, and effectively persuasive art.
Ethnomusicologists Putu Tangkas Adi Hiranmayena and Elizabeth McLean Macy critique the shortcomings of Balinese cultural consultation in the film Ticket to Paradise and how this perpetuates damaging global tourism industries
Exposing the aristocratic elitism of the academic class, scholar Andrew Bethke urges young academics to "go to war."
Vijay M. Rajan offers a Bill of Responsibilities, an easy-to-use checklist that helps readers discover whether their affiliated institutions are behaving in manners worthy of respect.
In this essay, composer Brandon K. Smith reflects on perfection(ism) through the lens of his own experience and begins to parse the ways in which it is harmful to practitioners of Western art music.
In this insufferable, sardonic jaunt through ethnography and speculative phenomenology, Ian Nutting critiques our modern understanding of selfhood and ponders art's power to transform our selves and our context.
Musician Mona Sangesland critiques the end-gaining mindset ubiquitous in music higher education that not only precludes musician fulfillment but denies music's power to enact social change.
Writer and filmmaker Vijay M. Rajan grapples with ideas of “soul” in Eastern and Western moral philosophy to access the flow necessary for ideal artistic expression.
