Serious pieces (and less so)

Actually they are all in some way serious but, hopefully, some of them may make you smile.

                           “Fundamental to the ethnomusicologist’s understanding of and passion for
                            music is that music insistently becomes more than itself – music and/in/of
                            culture; music as text/context; music and religion/ritual/the sacred; music and the body/embodied experience/dance/performance; music and race/racism/the                         racial imagination; music as everyday/marked experience; music in/out of time;
                            music emplaced/displaced; music experienced through hearing/listening/noise silence.”
                            Philip V. Bohman, SEM Newsletter, XLII(2008), no. 1, p. 1.