Re: [OT] if not here, where to go for political discussion?

[Alex Lubet <lubet001...>]

At 11:35 AM 4/26/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>I agree with Alex that it's sometimes hard to separate music from politics
>(and poetry and history and sociology and...).  Interdisciplinary
>discussions can enrich understanding of both disciplines.  I hope that
>anyone who has heard one of my programs on the Music of Blacks and Jews
>would agree.
>
>It seems to me that the risk for our list is when the discussion becomes
>exclusively political.

Fair enough.  I just hope that those of us who are Jewishly engaged 
musically are also politically vigilant.  The times require it.

>Bob
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Alex J. Lubet" <lubet001 (at) umn(dot)edu>
>To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 9:58 AM
>Subject: Re: [OT] if not here, where to go for political discussion?
>
>"I'm not entirely convinced that the recent discussions of NPR were
>off-topic, insofar as music only exists in context and that context is at
>least as much political as it is anything else." (excerpted)
>
>Alex Lubet, Ph. D.
>
>
>

Alex Lubet, Ph. D.
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Adjunct Professor of American and Jewish Studies
University of Minnesota
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