About a month ago I made an editorial decision not to run a story. I’ve been kicking myself ever since. Toward the end of the…
Big Ideals and Puny Brains
Category: Editorials
Thoughts About Censorship for Music Freedom Day 2007
With Freemuse’s global forum on censorship, Music Freedom Day 2007, right around the corner, I’ve been pondering over the idea of censorship. The idea of…
The Music Imperative
Every once in a while, when the international, national and local news aren’t quite enough to send me into a crazed frenzy, I wander over…
School Music Programs Going Corporate
According to a 2005 Harris poll regarding the importance of an arts education in American schools, 93 percent of the respondents agreed that arts programs…
Relief Information to Help Victims of Hurricane Katrina
World Music Central laments the disaster that has struck the southern states of the United States. Some of the poorest citizens of the United States…
Musical Pollution: When You Stumble Upon Unwanted Music
Unwanted music has become an insidiously pervasive nuisance whenever one ventures outside the home. It is ubiquitous and yet another overbearing marketing scheme. In the…
Lost Without Translation
Something rank and insidious has crept onto the world music scene recently and it’s coming from the reputable weekly journal Time Magazine. The foul scat…
Singing For Your Supper
As I am writing this, on the eve of the March 31st parliamentary elections in Zimbabwe, the tunes playing over the airwaves there are as…
Oh, Danny Don’t
I imagine more than a just few people will be waking up the day after St. Patrick’s Day still wearing-‘o-the-green, of course it might just…
Dumbing Down, the Dwindling Funding of the Arts
Recently, I received in the mail a request for a donation to a children’s softball league. The problem with this request is that it came…