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This chapter presents a radical critique of the dominant Western concept of music. We question the role of score-driven reproduction of music and its power of abstraction from human reality in the making of organized sounds.
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Mazzola, G. et al. (2020). A Critique of the Western Concept of Music. In: The Future of Music. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39709-8_16
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