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Re: [bomp] Neil Young Admits Music Can't Change World
Permit me to disagree with Mr. Young. As an art form, music certainly can
have the potential to change the world, but only in combination with other
forces and only in an indirect, organic way that may take years, if not
decades. In addition, the change is often not what the composers and
musicians themselves intended.
Not to sound too lofty here, but to relegate music's role as nothing but a
conduit for passive, escapist entertainment is to rob it of its power to
inspire and civilize us as individuals and as social beings.
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