[CharlesOConnell]

Interesting that music could be the first non-material cultural artifact to cross the boundary. Chinese music is now doing a very interesting thing, keeping true to and perhaps even preserving older cultural types which are distinctively Chinese, at least for internal reflection. (Japan's lack of correspondence in this regard is yet another thud in its cultural death knell.) The test of its versatility will be whether Chinese music begins to have anything approaching the pan-cultural impact of African or Iberian-Meghrib music, which blossomed in the old New World.

[Noumenon]

Fascinating angle - I had never thought of that. Music has been and is, after all, one western Civilization’s crowning achievements.

The very best of it is like hearing the voice of God.