The Perfect Christmas Album
What is the perfect Christmas album? Vince Guaraldi’s A Charlie Brown’s Christmas? Bing Crosby’s White Christmas? Or (maybe) the Christmas album pictured on the…
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Music Video of Ordinary Time’s ‘Come To Us, Emmanuel’
If you liked Ordinary Time’s In the Town of David, you are going to love this. Noonday Films (another of our featured artists) has…
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The United Kingdom has seen a number of protests over the last few weeks about the proposed cuts to higher education and increases in…
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Giving Thanks through Music: Over the Rhine
Through music, humans express and explore every possible area of emotion and experience. For example, we use music to mourn, celebrate, muse, rage, despair,…
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Musical Delight in a Dark World
You may be familiar with Sufjan Stevens from his two creative albums devoted to US states, Illinoise and Greetings from Michigan. Or you may…
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Michael Card’s Imaginative Use of Scripture in Song
For my final post as a weekly contributor to Transpositions, I have decided to examine the work of an artist who has effectively deepened…
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Praising the Unpopular: Some Reflections on Taste
In the beginning pages of his latest book Living in the End Times, Slavoj Žižek argues for the different between good taste and true…
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All that Jazz
“I never like jazz music because jazz music doesn’t resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw…
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