Disney does Islam: remember Aladdin? "Oh, I come from a land, From a faraway place, Where the caravan camels roam. Where they cut off your ear if they don't like your face. It's barbaric, but, hey, its home." Aladdin as an example of Disney's "Americanization of world culture" is the subject of this paper by Timothy R. White and J.E. Winn.
posted by jon lebkowsky at 11:28 AM
Hey, Molly! Glad to see you over there. Dig this piece on Karlheinz Stockhausen from The Guardian. I especially like this quote from a "suit," about Stockhausen's work: "This music contravenes nature. No bird sings discordantly, even water has overtones."
posted by jon lebkowsky at 3:46 PM