politics
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Our world has been blessed with life and cursed with humans. Since the beginning of our existence, we have constantly sought ways to divide ourselves, one of the finest techniques of our making being ‘Religion’. In our world, be it the past or present, the real war has never been between countries or in the
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Throughout history, all the forms of art we know have been seen as an instrument of control, music more than any other perhaps. During the Cold War, the cultural battlefield was as critical as the political one, with the USSR and the USA vying for global influence through their artistic output. The US had a
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Class is not an ancient or natural order—it’s manufactured. While we Marxists often speak in binaries like bourgeoisie and proletariat, the idea of class is much broader. Marx saw class as a group of people with intrinsic tendencies that differed from other groups in the society. But across the world, especially under British imperialism, class
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When we use the word commercialization we tend to think of smaller things that can be classified as commodities with value which can be sold to a customer and be used to make profit. In doing so many of us safely ignore larger concepts which aren’t always tangible- such as time. What is the time?
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The restless, relentless, mechanical and thunderous beat goes on as the left hand begins to pound the piano. The right hand follows suite and thus begins one of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s most well known compositions- his Prelude in G Minor from Études-Tableaux Op. 39 No. 6. While Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in G Minor seems to be glorious
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Symphony of Censorship When Dmitri Shostakovich premiered Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in 1934, its bold orchestration and raw emotional intensity shocked and thrilled Soviet audiences—until it terrified the regime. The modernist and sexually charged opera where Shostakovich intended to show the patriarchal society in which we live in, where through frustration and years of abuse
