Word: songfulness
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...Scholar,” Barrett strives to illuminate the role of the scholarly Muslim in American society. The chapter does not even begin with Abou El Fadl’s own name. It starts with an anecdote about an Asian American convert to Islam named Grace Song. Disillusioned with her new religion, she listens to some of Abou El Fadl’s writings on tape while driving in her car and feels her faith restored on an intellectual level. A connection is made and they eventually meet and marry. Rather than opening the chapter with a laundry list...
...would come across as languidly melancholic, the kind of thing your local high school debate semi-finalist might listen to in order to feel “alternative.” But despite the cheesy poisonous flower name and the fact that the album’s first song, “Sanctify,” rolls in with music that could score one of The Rock’s action films, Calla has created something new: Dinosaur Rock. The music’s primordial tendencies come across on songs like “Sanctify,” which centers...
...pens, and the color cerulean.) But this was different, or at least it felt different.While simultaneously talking to three girlfriends and a boy I liked on AIM, leaving a Testimonial on Friendster, doing homework, and watching an exceptionally good episode of “Scrubs,” a song came on that perfectly matched J.D. and Turk’s medical and emotional struggles. I moved a window on my laptop over and typed the first lyric I had heard into LimeWire, “...took a midnight train.” Immediately, a song popped...
...Love from Harvard Square.” The clips feature residents and store owners discussing love and its place in the Square. “Who knew that people propose at Bartley’s? Who knew that the staff of Adidas has the lyrics to a Bert Bacharach song in their heads?” Lesley Bannatyne, a local writer who reads poetry in one of the videos, wrote in an e-mail. The Association uploads one of the new videos—which range from around one to seven minutes in length—onto its Web site...
...Institute hosted a panel discussion on the effects and future of “Hallyu” or the “Korean wave” of pop culture in East Asia. The panel offered cross-disciplinary perspectives on the Hallyu phenomenon. The standing room only event featured Korean song writer and music manager Jin-Young Park and actress and television personality Jung-Sook Park—both famous in their fields. Several members of the panel said the flood of movies, music, and television programs is an important force in breaking down national barriers in East Asia. Jung-Sook...