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According to the Donne Foundation's 2023-2024 season report on global symphony orchestra repertoire, works by female composers account for only 7.5%. This article analyzes how women have been systematically excluded from Western classical music history through education, publishing, premieres, criticism, and textbooks, revealing how the 'Canon' has been shaped as a male-dominated historical narrative.
The history of classical music is not an objective record formed naturally, but a set of 'orthodox' standards filtered by power, gender, and class. We delve into: Who is qualified to be written into history? Why are women and people of color marginalized? Is 'highbrow music' a matter of aesthetics or distinction? Reexamining music history is to re-question the power to define 'greatness'.
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? From Schulhoff's silent score, Cage's 4'33", Duchamp's Fountain to Rauschenberg's White Paintings—exploring the boundaries of music and how silence becomes the loudest listening.
Music has never been merely an object of aesthetic appreciation; it has also been constantly moralized, politicized, and pathologized. From Plato and Soviet 'formalism' to Nazi 'degenerate music' and the PMRC, this article asks: Why does society always want music to bear its fears?
An in-depth analysis of ROSALÍA's core single "Divinize" from the album "LUX". The article starts from the rhythmic dislocation of the 5/4 time signature, combined with the reconstruction of mysticism and religious imagery, exploring how pop music internalizes the "female body" and "divinity". An interdisciplinary music review that weaves between sensory experience and cultural text.
In the era of AI and information overload, technology hasn't eased our burden but intensified anxiety and self-exploitation. From information cocoons and attention assets to 'playing dumb' and 'happiness,' this article explores how ordinary people can preserve themselves amid systemic chaos.
A close reading of ROSALÍA's “Reliquia” from LUX: beginning with the religious meaning of the relic, and moving through the lyrics, arrangement, and musical structure, this essay explores how the song rewrites loss as preservation and gives voice to a sacred yet uneasy modern self.
Is instant coffee just a compromise that sacrifices flavor? This essay traces the century-long history of instant coffee, from the needs of World War I front lines and the birth of Nescafe to spray drying, freeze drying, microgrinding, and liquid-nitrogen concentration, asking how modern industry keeps bargaining between efficiency and taste.
Everyone online seems to be diagnosing a new “reading problem.” If you cannot get through long articles anymore, people tell you your brain has been broken by screens and short video. This essay argues the opposite: in many cases, the problem is not your mind but the environment around it. We are not becoming illiterate so much as entering a post-monomodal age, where text, audio, video, and AI-assisted interaction all become valid containers for deep learning.
In the age of AI, do we still need a "second brain"? After deleting three years of saved inputs from my personal archive, I began to think differently about knowledge management: less hoarding, more retrieval, more connection, more real thought.
A close reading of ROSALÍA’s opening track on LUX, from its Ravel-like piano haze and operatic recitative to its Picardy-third resolution, using Lu Xun’s idea of “no-place” to think through the song’s collision of earthly desire and sacred longing.
Scientists warn that climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss are changing the smell of our planet. This is not just an environmental issue, but also a cultural one.
Using the crucifixion narrative, Lu Xun reconstructs revenge as lucid witness: not divine punishment, but watching the crowd condemn itself.
In Lu Xun’s “Revenge,” two armed figures refuse both embrace and violence, and that refusal becomes a devastating counterattack against spectatorship.
A satirical reading of Lu Xun’s “My Lost Love”: comic form on the surface, sharp critique of literary affectation and self-deceptive pride underneath.