What are some difficulties in using English terminology to describe the world's musics?
When music is represented graphically in notation, what are some of the limitations? How is Western staff notation limited in its ability to describe world music?
How might an "insider" to a musical tradition hear it differently from an "outsider"? Are both perspectives necessary for a complete picture?
What music best expresses your individual identity?
What distinguishes "modern" from "postmodern" scholarship in music?
What role does music play in your spiritual life?
How has technology changed the kinds of music we listen to and how we hear them?