3 articles
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.
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?
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.