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What is “Sacred” Music, Anway?
Since the reforms of the 1960s (when the Second Vatican Council curtailed the use of Latin), Catholic parishes and dioceses…
Nearing the Edge!
"Arts funding is an issue that is always high on the arts agenda; how to deliver it, finding a balance…
Branding Culture
The idea that one city can have more culture oozing from it's Central Park than anywhere else has been fueling…
Cultural Places: For a new demographic
"'New demographic' is a term blissfully unknown in the academic literature; Google Scholar, the standard source, contains not a single…
Art in the aftermath
In the aftermath of terrible disaster, art and artists often play a role in providing relief for trauma victims and…
Honorific!
Next year French President Jacques Chirac will most likely exit the presidential office for good. He will be remembered, he…
Cultural icons - what happens when they're gone?
Cultural icons are mortal like the rest of us, but who ought to decide what happens to their legacy after…
Quiet please...
In recent years increasing numbers of actor/audience conflicts and difficulties have led writers, actors, social commentators and web loggers to…
To have and to have not
One of the current buzzwords in the cultural world centres around the notion of a rising “Pro-Am class, aka the…
An Australian Abroad - Dancing The Dream with Simone Sault
The world is a very small place and with the other side less than a day away, it’s no surprise…