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Why Good Music Should Be Elitist

Today’s installment from the Battle of Ideas is bits of an essay by Anca Dumitrescu, a regular writer for Culture Wars.
The main theme of the essay is the universality of music but Dumitrescu makes excellent points about elitism. The OM think tank is working on a Salute To Elitism week, for which this article [...]

October 25, 2007 | Miss Mussel | Comments 0

Beaten To The Punch

Deep in the recesses of The Omniscient Mussel’s draft folder is a post entitled “In Praise of Elitism.” It was meant to discuss the dictionary definition of elite versus its popular connotation of snobby and rigidly exclusive; as the much-bandied epithet of anyone wishing to denounce anything they don’t immediately understand.
The plan was to then [...]

August 29, 2007 | Miss Mussel | Comments 3