The Moral Significance of the Music of the Black Atlantic.
It is argued here that part of the attraction of African music in the Atlantic Diaspora is its roots in an oral tradition in which agency is often more important than words. This makes it possible for the music to have a moral significance, not merely with respect to the verbal content of the words...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy East & West: A Quarterly of Comparative Philosophy Vol. 57; no. 3; pp. 345 - 357 |
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University of Hawai'i
Jul2007
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