John Blacking Quote

We must ask why apparently general musical abilities should be restricted to a chosen few in societies supposed to be culturally more advanced. Does cultural development represent a real advance in human sensitivity, or is it chiefly a diversion for elites and a weapon of class exploitation?

How Musical is Man? (ed. University of Washington Press, 1974) - ISBN: 9780295953380

We must ask why apparently general musical abilities should be restricted to a chosen few in societies supposed to be culturally more advanced. Does...

We must ask why apparently general musical abilities should be restricted to a chosen few in societies supposed to be culturally more advanced. Does...

We must ask why apparently general musical abilities should be restricted to a chosen few in societies supposed to be culturally more advanced. Does...

We must ask why apparently general musical abilities should be restricted to a chosen few in societies supposed to be culturally more advanced. Does...