Vivek Virani

Ethnomusicologist, performer, teacher. Lover of music and life. @UNTCoM

[Vivek Virani @ProfessorVirani]

@determu Is "music time" a communal activity? Do people gather around after dinner to sing? Does one person noodle on an instrument by themselves while others go about their reading/sewing? Are people all playing together as a form of recreation/bonding/ritual?

[Vivek Virani @ProfessorVirani]

@determu Since Leshy's are made of wood, my first thought was semantron (which actually is used in Eastern Orthodox monasteries). https://t.co/unUGsIKUJG

HOWEVER - it really depends on the social/community structure of the hermitage.

[Vivek Virani @ProfessorVirani]

@prof_ajchung Best of luck - even though you don't need it!

[Vivek Virani @ProfessorVirani]

@cosine_distance I seriously dislike Apple's ecosystem, but as a professor/musician, the iPad has been a game-changer. I have stopped bringing my laptop to campus and only travel with it on week+ long trips.

I even screencast my iPad while teaching instead of using whiteboard for music theory.

[Vivek Virani @ProfessorVirani]

@MeeruNilaya Since you and I both went to college in the post-9/11 Bush Era USA, I'm damn curious which college professor thought Orientalism was no longer a thing.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

Imagine taking a few Bible verses on human sexuality and demanding they be legislated over our entire country, yet reducing the +3,000 Bible verses calling for a generous use of wealth that prioritizes the poor, the vulnerable, and the refugee to a private, personal choice.

[rialized, MD @ria1ized]

Me: ::climbs to top of highest holy peak in all the land to find the sage hermit meditating there::
Sage: Why have you come?
Me: I seek the most secret secret there is in life
Sage: A worthy quest. Then ask, my child
Me: How do you keep socks on a baby

[Vivek Virani @ProfessorVirani]

@nickzanca As a music professor who listens to music all the time and almost definitely can process/analyze it faster than the average person...

...there is no way in hell I could do even half that number.

[jon repetti @pourfairelevide]

I know “discipline” is still a dirty word to so many people who misread Foucault, but even Foucault recognized that self-discipline is the only means we have to intellectual freedom, and that it must be taught. Immensely depressing to see professors disavow that work.

[Vivek Virani @ProfessorVirani]

@DrMaDMo It's so damaging to the intellectual growth of scholars too. Students learn to fake confidence and insight to get stuff through before they actually know themselves whether they should be confident in their arguments or if those arguments are insightful

[Vivek Virani @ProfessorVirani]

@katherineschof8 I'd love that! So excited about your latest book

[Vivek Virani @ProfessorVirani]

@katherineschof8 You have divine timing! I'm giving a guest performance/talk tomorrow about the blurriness of the communities/theologies represented by "bhakti"/"sufi"/"yogi", with a focus on Kabir/Nath vernacular poetry. This is a perfect visual companion!

[rialized, MD @ria1ized]

Why, in the US, have we normalized moms going back to work when their babies are young enough that they still aren't sleeping through the night

[Dov Waxman @DovWaxman]

To the people celebrating the mass murder of Israeli civilians, you have lost your humanity. To the people enthusiastically calling for Israel to decimate Gaza, densely populated with 2 million Palestinian civilians, you have lost your humanity. Israelis and Palestinians are real people, just like you and me.

[Vivek Virani @ProfessorVirani]

@austin_walker @jesawyer Idk I heard Lunch Tray got some serious buffs in the latest update.

[Vivek Virani @ProfessorVirani]

@yakabikaj @AsadFromNYC Bhabha actually gets partial credit for helping me come out of that phase. Midway through grad school, I heard him speak at my uni and thought "either I'm completely stupid or that was just pointless empty academic wankery." I assumed the former for a while before realizing...

[Lyra, Esq., is NOT DAREDEVIL @PinkRangerLB]

My actual professor of critical race theory in law school said “John Brown was white, what do you have to be ashamed of personally unless you identify more with the enslavers than with John Brown?”

[Vivek Virani @ProfessorVirani]

@maura @melnickjeffrey1 As a tabla player, this was my first response as well.

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

Best headline on crime I've seen all summer
https://t.co/WiUZyvD7aA