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[Kelly Coyle <kcoyle@black-hole.com>]

>I agree that music ideally shouldn't need an instruction manual to
>validate its existence.  It should hold up on its own merits, and a
>listener is free to like it or not, regardless of any extra-musical
>baggage.

On the other hand, there might be music that _requires_ some sort of
education to understand -- isn't the world big enough for that?

K