Observations on Music, Culture, and Politics: A Conversation with Daniel Asia

Athenaeum Review

Daniel Asia has been an eclectic and unique composer from the start. He has enjoyed the usual grants from Meet the Composer, a UK Fulbright award, Guggenheim Fellowship, MacDowell and Tanglewood fellowships, ASCAP and BMI prizes, Copland Fund grants, and numerous others. He was recently honored with a Music Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. As a writer and critic, his articles have appeared in Academic Questions, The New Criterion, the Huffington Post, New Music Connoisseur, and American Institute for Economic Research. He is the author of Observations on Music, Culture and Politics, recently published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, and editor of The Future of (High) Culture in America (CSP). The recorded works of Daniel Asia may be heard on the labels of Summit, New World, Attacca, Albany, Babel, Innova, and Mushkatweek. Mr. Asia is Professor of Music at the University of Arizona, and President of the Center for American Culture and Ideas (a 501c3).

His website is www.danielasia.net.