Fairytales and Erik Varden: A Renewal of Childlike Faith
The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to…
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Travel Notes: On Writing, Surprise and the Self Through Time
Reading Plato’s Phaedrus, we learn that Socrates disapproved of writing. The funny thing is that Plato, who was his student, felt it appropriate to…
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Call for Submissions: Narrative
Our lives are populated with narratives. Whether we’re reading a novel, listening to a true-crime podcast, keeping up with the latest political developments or…
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Inhabiting the Immersive Studio Album
In 2013, American actor, writer and musician Donald Glover told an interviewer in promotion of his upcoming studio album: ‘I don’t want to make…
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Review of Making Value: Music, Capital, and the Social
Timothy D. Taylor. Making Value: Music, Capital, and the Social. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024, $26.95 E-book. From singing hymns in church, to…
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To ‘Listen Without Prejudice’: On the Necessity of Loving Music I Don’t Always Like
Lest anyone remains among Transpositions readership who has missed the copious memos, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift have released records.1 In an era where our…
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Call for Submissions: Pop Music
Perhaps unfairly, pop music elicits a variety of negative images—erratic crowds of fangirls, producers who prioritise formulaic constructions over creative innovation, sensational aesthetics trickling…
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Much Ado About Nothingness
Every spring, Transept—a practicing artist’s group within the Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts (ITIA)—hosts an art exhibit, culminating in an evening of…
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Existentialist Lana Del Rey
What you doin’ with your life? Do you think about it? Do you contemplate where we came from?’ So sings Lana Del Rey in…
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