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Tag Archives: Charles Murray

“Eurocentrism? We Aren’t The World” by Jon Pareles

April 8, 2011by Jon Silpayamanant 12 Comments

Can’t believe this was written over twenty years ago: http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/23/arts/pop-view-eurocentrism-we-aren-t-the-world.html excerpt: What does this have to do with music? Plenty. Music, popular and classical, is a potent cultural symbol, one […]

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Cross-Cultural criticism
Charles Murray's "Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 BC to 1950"

Charles Murray and “The Impossibility of Being Nonjudgmental” (part 1)

February 28, 2011by Jon Silpayamanant 3 Comments

In Chapter 5, “Excellence and its Identification,” of Charles Murray’s book (Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950) the author writes in the […]

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Aesthetics, Origins

Charles Murray and Excellence in Music

February 11, 2011by Jon Silpayamanant 4 Comments

“It is easy to lie with statistics, but it’s a lot easier to lie without them.” – Richard J. Herrnstein After tearing apart my home office and doing some re-organization […]

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Aesthetics

The perils of having only one hammer in your toolbox

September 29, 2005by Jon Silpayamanant Leave a comment

Damn–so I wasn’t thinking that post comments didn’t allow the “blockquote” html tag. So rather than going back and changing all those to “em”s i decided to be lazy and […]

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