Daniel Asia

Contributor

Daniel Asia has been an eclectic and unique composer from the start. He has enjoyed the usual grants from Meet the Composer, a UK Fulbright award, Guggeneheim Fellowship, MacDowell and Tanglewood fellowships, ASCAP and BMI prizes, Copland Fund grants, and numerous others. He was recently honored with a Music Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

As a writer and critic, his articles have appeared in Academic Questions, The New Criterion, Huffington Post, Athenaeum Review, and New Music Connoisseur. He is the author of Observations on Music, Culture and Politics, recently published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, and editor of The Future of (High Culture) in America (also CSP). He is Professor of Music in the Fred Fox School of Music at the University of Arizona, and President of The Center for American Culture and Ideas. www.danielasia.net

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    When Race Trumps Merit, A Review

    “As a remedy for this alleged racism we create double standards of accomplishment and behavior. But double standards help no one.” ~ Daniel Asia

    When Race Trumps Merit, A Review

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    A Review of Wynton Marsalis’s Moving to Higher Ground

    “It is the individual speaking her innermost feelings. In the words of the famous jazz composition by Norman Mapp, ‘jazz ain’t nothing but soul,’ and in our world now, we need that individual voice and soul more than ever.” ~ Daniel Asia

    A Review of Wynton Marsalis’s Moving to Higher Ground

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    The Hare With Amber Eyes, by Edmund de Waal. A Review.

    “De Waal decides he needs to know more about his inherited netsukes and ends up on a multi-year ride finding out about his family and their interaction with the objects.” ~ Daniel Asia

    The Hare With Amber Eyes, by Edmund de Waal. A Review.

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    Edunomics

    “Most public universities have become ancillary components of the federal government. This explains, in part, the complete takeover and increasing bureaucratization of the modern research university, public or private.” ~ Daniel Asia

    Edunomics

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    Authority And Freedom by Jed Perl: A Review

    “In The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith placed free markets in the context of other factors that make up a well-functioning society. One of those factors, one that stands on an equal-though-separate footing with economics or politics, is the arts.” ~ Daniel Asia

    Authority And Freedom by Jed Perl: A Review

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    Whoopi, Maus, and 80 Years of American Jewry

    “It is now they, not Jews, who must take to heart the phrase ‘Never Again.’ My Gentile friends should ask themselves: If it comes to it, when the mobs come, will I take in and protect my Jewish friends?” ~ Daniel Asia

    Whoopi, Maus, and 80 Years of American Jewry

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    Princeton and the Woke Ballet

    “It takes Ivy Leaguers from Princeton to somehow place the desire for goodness, truth, and beauty in the realm of ideological wokeness, and not comprehend it as a simple and beautiful ontological truth and necessity available to all.” ~ Daniel Asia

    Princeton and the Woke Ballet

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    Cultural Appropriation: Try Not To

    “Art, music, religion, science, language, food, and more all evolve due to the cultural ebbs and flows of human inspiration. Ultimately, the process is not one of theft, but of admiration and respect, and should be treated as such.” ~ Daniel Asia

    Cultural Appropriation: Try Not To