I subscribe to far too many newsletters. Most remain unopened. But for some reason, I decided to open one from David Byrne (probably because Mali was in the subject line, and it is #ReadingAfrica Week). It led with a pretty simple statement, “Music is dangerous—Plato was right, the religious fundamentalists are right—music touches and rouses the emotions like nothing else.” I turned that over for a while.
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