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...Listen to Delbanco bewail our current solipsism in his fifth book, The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope: "If we fail to contribute to some good beyond ourselves, we condemn ourselves to the hell of loneliness." He notes that "the highest aspiration" of our "soul-starving present...is to keep the body forever young." He dares to use terms like destiny and Satan and still show his face in Manhattan, where Heaven and Hell are merely the names of competing downtown bars...
...Sudan, musicians cannot perform after dark; in a Nigerian state where Islamic law is followed, a musician was recently imprisoned for singing. "In much of the Third World, people cannot read or write," says Marie Korpe, executive director of Freemuse, a group in Denmark that monitors music censorship. "People listen to the radio, to songs. It is music that reaches people's hearts and souls." When music is muzzled, an outlet for self-expression is lost...
...Just listen to the score for Capcom's Onimusha, released for Sony's PlayStation 2 last year. Composer Mamoru Samuragoch, 37, created a rich, textured symphony that elevates a game with a mundane plot--a samurai must rescue a princess from a bunch of demons--into a story of epic proportions. To record it, Samuragoch browbeat the producers into employing a 200-piece orchestra, including musicians playing such traditional instruments as a Japanese flute and taiko drums. The result is both haunting and inspirational, reminiscent of majestic scores for films like Lawrence of Arabia. "In the 20th century, film became...
...results of that kind of a society is that all the media, all the entertainment, are really separated. I could listen to English radio or Afrikaans radio or Zulu radio, and they didn't cross over. There was no mixing. On Afrikaans radio, all the music you listened to was Afrikaans. And then English music was mostly on the English stations. Though the English claimed to be the sort of liberal people in power, their whole identification had nothing to do with Africa. It was all Europe...
...great young talent in Dakar. Every two or three years, I actually produce an album for someone, but I also started a record label called Jololy, and I think that with the passage of time some of these young people are going to do better than I. I listen to a lot of things in the music of today. But I also have a particular weakness for the music of the '60s. I listen to a lot of Marvin Gaye and Otis Redding, and Latin music. I grew up close to Latin music in Dakar. I listen...