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Title: Racist book
Review: To quote Dorothy Parker:"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force!" This book is a terrible example of someone trying to claim their personal musical taste is somehow scientifically valid and demonises all African music as evil and destructive. There are interesting details about Chinese and Asian music, but the anti-African stance is both irrational and blatantly racist. It reports absurd rumours as if they are facts, for example that the Soviets were secretly financing western music as they 'knew' it would cause capitalism to collapse. The recommendations at the end of the book are nearly all published by 'The Great White Brotherhood' which is just what it sounds like, a racist offshoot of the Theosophist movement. To be avoided at all costs.
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