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“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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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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