by Kurt Knecht | Jun 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
My friend, Dr. Sarah Farr, got in touch with me in the Summer of 2022 to discuss writing some songs for developing voices. Volume I is now available. You can purchase it here: Songs for Developing Voices Volume I This set represents the first volume of what we hope to...
by Kurt Knecht | Jun 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
One of the difficulties about the discussion around cultural appropriation is simply figuring out what the word “culture” means and how to draw border lines around it. In a global community, for better or worse — and I personally think mostly worse — there isn’t much...
by Kurt Knecht | Jun 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
Context seems to be a major factor in how we understand the appropriate usage of cultural artifacts. Once when I was in the Museum of Natural History in D.C., I was struck by the display of a totem pole. It seems odd that we, as a culture, would pull an object that...
by Kurt Knecht | Jun 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
If we think about the British Museum displaying a vase from ancient Babylon, the concept of “cultural appropriation is clear. They likely picked up the vase during the glory days of the Empire. In that case, one group takes something from another group. Stealing is...
by Kurt Knecht | May 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
When I was coming up as an organist, I complained to a friend once about some goings on in a meeting of the local chapter of the American Guild of Organists. He replied with the classic joke, “Well, you know, the AGO is really just an organization for little old...
by Kurt Knecht | May 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
“For how stands the case, for instance, if we endeavor to explain the cause of the rising of the Nile? We may say a great deal, plausible or otherwise on the subject; but what is true, sure, and incontrovertible regarding it, belongs only to God. Then, again, the...
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