Music as a civic strategy: books reviewed in this week’s Economist —
“FOR Plato the art of music was so firmly anchored in moral and political reality that any alteration to the musical system would necessarily require a corresponding political shift.”
Great Vietnamese Buddhist teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh, calls it “Interbeing” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Interbeing). The intellectuals reviewed in this week’s Econimist call it Music: http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11959117
The Music Public Service Movement is real: http://www.musicnationalservice.org—–