Alex Ross’s thoughtful essay on vicious uses of music left a few interesting stones oddly turned. At the conclusion, he asks us to “renounce the fiction of music’s innocence,” citing the damage that music can do. “Either music affects the world around it or it doesn’t,” he says. It’s a curious dichotomy, as is this one: “It is a mistake to place ‘music’ and ‘violence’ in separate … [Read more...]
Lawrence Dillon: Connecting the Dots
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