Quite right Stephane. Culture defines a peoples. And the arts (music, visual
and literary- intelluctual proerty and all) defines the culture.
And the humanities gives frame of reference to the arts. Here in 
the California public school system, that is going away--- arts, 
humanities, civics (social studies), and is also reflected in
the priorities where Public Broadcasting (PBS, CPB and all) are about 
to be eliminated in the USA (lack of arts or humanities, and "USA"
is a contradiction in terms, like military intelligence).

-Partev

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--- lecteur@zogotounga.net wrote:

From: Stéphane Rollandin 
To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [Csnd] [OT] what is music?
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:05:41 +0100

> I have already written my thoughts on this general question, so will not
> repeat them in detail. It has however become something of a political
> issue, given that scientists such as Pinker assert music is comparable
> to pornography and no more significant in evolutionary terms than
> "auditory cheesecake". So, even if only in the UK, I feel we do not have
> the luxury of "stopping" our investigations, merely because we already
> have as many reasons to be dedicated to music as we could wish and are
> thus busy "getting on with it". These scientists have the ear of
> government, and we are already seeing the ease with which funding for
> the humanities in general, and music in particular, is (again) being
> squeezed  (with the usual government Orwellian sophistry of claiming
> their reduced budget is somehow "more"). So any means we can find to
> persuade Pinker et al to admit they are wrong needs to be explored and
> (crucially) presented as briefly and clearly as possible in a way that
> cannot be ignored. That web page meets neither criterion, though its
> intentions are noble and it makes many useful points.

If this is the current state of affairs, I feel really sorry about it. 
Having to scientifically demonstrate the value of music in order to get 
someone's ears reveals an incredibly poor state of support for 
humanities by your (and possibly our) government(s). These are dark ages.

Stef


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