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Title: Tin ear
Review: Scruton is weakest when attempting to dismiss huge swathes of contemporary music by judging it according to the very different norms of very different music, sealed off from the difficulties of encountering pluralistic societies, of the past. It's hard not to conclude that Scruton is simply not very perceptive about music generally if he can get popular music so very wrong, or worse, is racist in his dismissal of ways of being musical that derive from non-white cultures.
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