Writing ʌ Culture

One month countdown until I leave for epic adventures in Southeast Asia!! View Full Size Travel Map at Travellerspoint Here is a rough map of where I'll be heading to start; beginning with...

Artist: Miles Davis (Technically there is no group name) Title: It Never Entered My Mind A fascinating book I’m reading right now… "It was a gem. “It Never Entered My Mind” was blissful and...

I am ecstatic to finally have some time to relax and spend the holidays with my family. Flew into Boston Saturday evening, and drove from there to St. John in New Brunswick (Canada), and tomorrow we drive...

Both music and architecture make a surrounding, and also they make an ambiance; both music and architecture allow you to do something else - something else while listening to music, something else while in...

Excerpts from Musicking - The Meanings of Performing and Listening  Author: Christopher Small - Music is not a thing at all, but an activity, something that people do. The apparent thing “music”...

The Branches - Deluxe Edition by Long Arm It’s almost 1:00AM, and I am sitting in the Portland airport having just arrived for the first time - finding this track by Long Arm to be mesmerizing,...

I can hear the music develop in my mind as I think about it, I can feel its weight, and understand its magic. It has a magic that is to do with time, and how you find time, and how time finds you, and...

Irony is unsettling: it is a self-conscious mode that senses the failure of all sophisticated conceptualizations; stylistically, it employs rhetorical devices that signal real or feigned disbelief on the...

Excerpts from “A Crack In The Mirror” -Barbara Myerhoff & Jay Ruby - Reflexivity generates heightened awareness and vertigo, the creative intensity of a possibility that loosens us from habit...

An excerpt taken from my Ethnomusicology class - written in 1929 by Bela Bartok (famous composer…I loved playing his Six Romanian Folk Dances for the violin in college) ---------- Talking about rural...