"The boldest aspect of Boon's argument . . . is his move to the level of ontology–to the nature of being or reality itself. For him music's social and racial significance operates not at the level of social codes or experience, but as an intervention in how reality itself is organised: 'music does tell us something about being.' His framework certainly allows a place for aspects of music-making that usually get screened out of modern criticism: its religious power, its role in many cultures' sense of the world's structure. . . ."–Dan Barrow "The Wire" (9/1/2022 12:00:00 AM)