Perennial questions about music and politics gain new urgency: “What is the point at which cultural exchange—always a blur between being a humanizing balm and a tool of propaganda, a coopting of music’s supposed neutrality—becomes unbearable? What is sufficient distance from authoritarian leadership?” (The New York Times, 3/2/22; The New Yorker, 3/3/22)
Perennial questions about music and politics gain new urgency
