Adam J Sacks holds a PhD and M.A. from the Department of History at Brown University. He also completed a Masters of Science (High Honors) from the City College of the City University of New York, and a Bachelor of Arts, Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell University. Originally from New York, Adam currently serves as a Lecturer for the Faculty of the Arts at the University of Hong Kong. He has published two short books of cultural criticism, one on Wagner’s Parsifal and the other on the Oberammergau Passion Play. A manuscript on the interrelations of Music and Politics is currently in press.