A few interesting historical tidbits buried inside a pompous vehicle for the author's many subjective value judgments. This gatekeeping rant about 'degenerate'

A few interesting historical tidbits buried inside a pompous vehicle for the author's many subjective value judgments. This gatekeeping rant about 'degenerate' music is a generational drum beat by moral conservatives many times over. Music is universal to all cultures and time periods, and has as many facets. It's incredibly arrogant to think that you've landed on some unique vision of the 'right' kind of music, especially when you've fallen into the easy trap of thinking harmony is the true core of music simply because it's intellectually interesting. If anything, the core of music in most cultures is dancing.