Re:At The Dawn Of Recorded Sound, No One Cared
by coldtea on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @02:53PM
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>Half of Bach's manuscripts were lost.
So? How does that make "past attitudes" any more "absurdly parochial" than ours, since the vast majority could care less for Bach and classical music today?
>Writing was invented for tax purposes.
Well, taxes were invented to help build cities and defend them, so there's that.
So? How does that make "past attitudes" any more "absurdly parochial" than ours, since the vast majority could care less for Bach and classical music today?
>Writing was invented for tax purposes.
Well, taxes were invented to help build cities and defend them, so there's that.