How moral are different types of music? The question is not as odd as it sounds, although the answer is anything but obvious. Indeed, it is quite probably an impossible question to shed light on. Not that people have not tried before. Plato thought that certain modes were morally better than others. The flat five interval – the use of which is central to the blues sound – was thought to be the Devil’s interval in medieval music. Equally, it is often thought that listeni…
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