In his acceptance speech for the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest, Portuguese winner Salvador Sobral issued a controversial call to arms to “bring music back” to a place of meaning and feeling: We live in a world of disposab...

One of the main functions of the media is to tell a society’s collective story, both to the society itself and to others. People instinctively grasp the importance of this, and an established way of assessing how well a ...