OK, you started this one, so you can answer it first - how DO you define
music?




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Of Phil Daley
Sent: 31 March 2006 18:27
To: finale@shsu.edu
Subject: RE: [Finale] music literacy




Was that ovary, or overly?  Is subliminal thought coming into play here
;-)

 >It was only a few weeks ago I was chatting with a couple of high
school
 >music teachers, about how farcical it is that the topic of 'protest
 >songs' is almost always taught without any reference to any rap music.
 >And how the curriculum avoids rap music entirely, with the only reason
 >we could see being that too many people shy away from the subject
matter
 >(even though similarly-controversial topics get tackeld in drama,
 >English, art,...)

Is "rap" music?    I don't think so, only in the way that African drum 
beats are music. To which I would vote "no" .

Maybe we need to back up another step and define "music"?

Phil Daley  

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