Songs are sneaky things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. The right song at the right moment could change history. — Pete Seeger
The study of humanities and the liberal arts is underpinned by the question of value, with the life-enriching beliefs and ideas articulated by artists and philosophers. Any attempt to understand the relevance of the humanities in the murky age of neoliberalism is a move towards confronting the social and political magnitude of multiplicity, exile, and, more than anything, the inevitability of debate in a true democracy. It is indeed an exercise in shaping our resistance against ignorance, animosity and forgetting.
