Diversity, Inclusive Programming, and Music Education (part 1)

In 2011 Tyler Thompson, a fifteen year old African American sophomore at the Oakland School for the Arts, made some waves in national and international news as a singer of songs in Mandarin. In 2004 he had already made national news for singing in a children's Chinese Opera. Here's an AP Video Piece from '11 …

The Golden Voice of Cambodia

A few weeks ago I finally had the opportunity to watch Greg Cahill's docufilm about Cambodian vocalist, Ros Sereysothea, The Golden Voice. I was only mildly disappointed. Not for the quality of the film--it is beautifully done--but because there wasn't enough focus on, well, the music (probably also the biggest issue I had with Olivier …

I wanna fly like KRRISH!

So KRRISH is playing at the Georgetown in town (has been for a week now and was actually premiered the day of its release at the local IMAX where Superman Returns: An IMAX 3D Experience is supposed to be playing) and I really want to see it (even if I haven't seen Koi...Mil Gaya yet). …

The perils of having only one hammer in your toolbox

Damn--so I wasn't thinking that post comments didn't allow the "blockquote" html tag. So rather than going back and changing all those to "em"s i decided to be lazy and post my response to James here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Posted before I have the sense to stop myself: You'll have to forgive me here-- I was never …

Orientalism, Kill Bill, and the “Death of the Author”

Another response to James. I was going to respond a couple of nights ago, but then my response ended up being half a dissertation and I saved it as a draft at my blog instead. Sometimes being able to easily jump from box to box means that you're less likely to stay in one to …