Literature preexists media in the form of oral tradition. Your arguments about the exceptionalism of music would invalidate the Odyssey. Your argument of recor

Literature preexists media in the form of oral tradition. Your arguments about the exceptionalism of music would invalidate the Odyssey. Your argument of recorded music vs. live music also doesn't make sense- why is a record more recorded than sheets music? If a piece of music is literally written down and can be replicated, it's no less recorded than the most pristine lossless sound file.