and Wild at Heart—the final sequence morphing from Richard Strauss to Elvis, adding to the intensity of both, as the camera coils amorously around the lovers stephenjones.blog/2017/01/10/str…

Recent initiatives in the teahouse ensemble music of Shanghai, seeking to bridge the folk-conservatoire gulf stephenjones.blog/2025/01/17/siz…

Splendid 2012 review by Michael Frishkopf of the Rough Guide to Sufi Music, critiquing the world music industry, as well as unpacking the concepts of "Sufi" and "music" stephenjones.blog/2025/01/20/on-……

The Return of the Prophet (Not): a choice vignette from Nigel Barley's The Innocent Anthropologist stephenjones.blog/2018/04/01/pro…

More drole vocabulary for those visits to the dentist stephenjones.blog/2025/01/23/mor…

Many important links here!

Holocaust Memorial Day—all the more important now in the light of current distortions

Some charming ferry piers along the Bosphorus—some with cafés and libraries stephenjones.blog/2025/01/28/isk…

Noor Inayat Khan: essential reading!

Succinct playlists on my You Tube channel under diverse themes, leading to coverage on my website

Mots d'heures: gousses, rames— Un petit d’un petit S’etonne aux Halles stephenjones.blog/2017/01/01/mor…

A further update to Nicolas Magriel's voluminous sarangi site! stephenjones.blog/2024/05/02/sar…

theguardian.com/law/2025/feb/0…

Not quite an update stephenjones.blog/2025/02/04/not… as I try to abandon the iniquity of Twitter by moving to BlueSky—so do follow me there! bsky.app/profile/stevej…

Of course it's a coup open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/o…

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Kudos to China Heritage for translating Zhang Qianfan's outstanding essay on the threats to US democracy and parallels to China's Cultural Revolution. chinaheritage.net/journal/godels…

Follow me on BlueSky instead!!! You know it makes sense... bsky.app/profile/stevej…

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a…

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