Re: [OT] if not here, where to go for political discussion?

[Bob Wiener <wiener...>]

I agree with Alex that it's sometimes hard to separate music from politics
(and poetry and history and sociology and...).  Interdisciplinary
discussions can enrich understanding of both disciplines.  I hope that
anyone who has heard one of my programs on the Music of Blacks and Jews
would agree.

It seems to me that the risk for our list is when the discussion becomes
exclusively political.

Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex J. Lubet" <lubet001 (at) umn(dot)edu>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 9:58 AM
Subject: Re: [OT] if not here, where to go for political discussion?

"I'm not entirely convinced that the recent discussions of NPR were
off-topic, insofar as music only exists in context and that context is at
least as much political as it is anything else." (excerpted)

Alex Lubet, Ph. D.



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