Based on fieldwork carried out in West Bengal, "Sailing on the Sea of Love" is a pioneering study of the songs of the Baul – a Bengali religious sect, widely beloved for its enchanting music. Charles Capwell describes the role Baul song plays in the...

Sun Ra (1914-1993) – self-proclaimed visionary extraterrestrial of the "Angel Race", prophetic jazz band leader and composer, and lyrical proponent of Afro-futurism – was one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century music. Though many of...

Not for sale in Estonia! Written in his characteristic "mesostics" (lines of prose poetry linked by a central vertical acrostic), "Composition in Retrospect" is a statement of methodology in which composer John Cage examines the central issues of h...