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Music and Ethics: With Strings Attached

By michael lee ⋅ October 15, 2007 ⋅ 7 comments

This is another in the series of ethical questions I’m having my class work through. I had just finished writing this up when i heard on NPR that Altria is shutting down it’s philanthropic work over the next two years. Good timing! Bonus points on this one if you can tell me what book I [...]

Fellow Travellers In The Valley of The Shadow

By Chad ⋅ October 13, 2007 ⋅ 28 comments

He who goes by Bill Metanoya emailed me the other day and told me that he was going to hold his breath until I blogged again, that he needed a fix.  I can only hope that he was bluffing.  If not, my most sincere apologies to Becky and Larissa. 
Here’s my blog.  Take a deep breath, [...]

Ayana and the Sacred Song

By michael lee ⋅ September 30, 2007 ⋅ 50 comments

This is another in the series of posts I asked my Music and Ethics students to consider and comment on. Thought I’d toss it out to the wolves here as well:
Ayana and the Sacred Song
Ayana grew up the daughter of an international trade lawyer, and is an accomplished singer. Ayana moved around the world with [...]

Why Be Virtuous?

By michael lee ⋅ September 5, 2007 ⋅ 7 comments

As part of the Music and Ethics class, I post something on the course blog each week for the students to read, consider, and then comment on. This is the first of the blog assignments, and I thought it would be interesting to post it here as well, for you folks to interact with:
Blog Assignment [...]

A Virtuous Musician

By michael lee ⋅ September 5, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Today was the first meeting of the brand new class, Music and Ethics. The whole class is built around the question, “What does it mean to be a virtuous musician?”
It was pretty electric - the students were excited about the course, and I was nervous (I still get nervous before every single class session I [...]

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