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Sacred words, profane music? The Free Monks as a musical phenomenon in contemporary Greek Orthodoxy
The Free Monks (Eleftheroi) are a Greek Orthodox rock band of black-robed monks. Being the first of its kind in Greece, the group has produced popular ......(Continue Reading) Praying Twice: The Music and Words of Congregational Song. - Review - book review
Praying Twice: The Music and Words of Congregational Song. By Brian Wren. Westminster John Knox, 385 pp., $22.95. In one of his earliest hymns, Brian Wren wrote that "we will not question or re...(Continue Reading)Freedom's song: Chris Moss celebrates the enduring tradition of Latin American protest song - music
When I arrived in Buenos Aires in 1991, much of the music being played on the radio was imported, middle-of-the-road rock. Radio stations were paid to play it, and it featured incessantly on many o...(Continue Reading)O politics where art thou? - The First Words … - politics and popular music - Editorial
Over the years, I've fielded calls from a number of newspaper reporters querying one aspect of folk music (or the "folk revival") or another. A recurrent ......(Continue Reading)Songs of Whitman: jazz pianist Fred Hersch crowns a lifetime of achievement with Leaves of Grass, an evening-long composition based on the poetry of protoqueer
"I've been dogged by my musical choices," says jazz pianist and composer Fred Hersch. "Yes, I chose to play Billy Strayhorn and Cole Porter, who were ......(Continue Reading)
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