Giving Thanks through Music: Over the Rhine
byThrough music, humans express and explore every possible area of emotion and experience. For example, we use music to mourn, celebrate, muse, rage, despair,…
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Musical Delight in a Dark World
byYou may be familiar with Sufjan Stevens from his two creative albums devoted to US states, Illinoise and Greetings from Michigan. Or you may…
Michael Card’s Imaginative Use of Scripture in Song
byFor my final post as a weekly contributor to Transpositions, I have decided to examine the work of an artist who has effectively deepened…
Praising the Unpopular: Some Reflections on Taste
byIn the beginning pages of his latest book Living in the End Times, Slavoj Žižek argues for the different between good taste and true…
All that Jazz
by“I never like jazz music because jazz music doesn’t resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw…