Category Culture

When Diane Foley learned of the beheading of her son by Islamic State terrorists in 2014, “time didn’t just freeze. Time disappeared entirely from time.” James Foley’s murderers claimed they were acting in retaliation for America’s airstrikes in Iraq. The…

In 1987, a group of white British independent label bosses came together to invent a new marketing category: world music. Eager to promote the growing public interest in artists from Bulgaria, the Middle East and across Africa, they were encouraged…