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    Social Harmony as Measured by Music
    Social Harmony as Measured by Music
    Social Harmony as Measured by Music
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    Social Harmony as Measured by Music

    By David Huttner

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    This lecture shows how the character and quality of music reflects the harmony of its society, especially the prospects for love and happy marriage. Since the 1920s and early to mid 1930s, American music has deteriorated in step with the decay of the American Empire. Computers are also and everywhere to blame because the computer keyboard has replaced the piano keyboard in our lives, and computers cannot create music.

    If music is to get back on track --or even survive! --governments will have to subsidize computerless music schools, and China will have to present the world with a much better social model than America did.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Huttner
    Release dateJun 9, 2013
    ISBN9781301516063
    Social Harmony as Measured by Music
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    David Huttner

    I was born into a typically-dysfunctional American family that lived in a big, ugly American city. But I was born in 1949, in the early years of the Great American Celebration, when Americans were enjoying unprecedented prosperity. All the wishful thinkers attributed the prosperity to God's providence. (We were the only industrialized country lucky enough to have had two great oceans to protect us during WWII.) If their God did exist, then He had to be a sadist because those bigger houses and cars weren't making my dysfunctional family any happier. I already knew that the American Dream is a fraud and that we don't know half of what we need to know about ourselves and our ancestors when one of the periodic flights from the family problems took us to Indianapolis and landed me in Indianapolis Public School #80. Strange coincidences and a trauma of the previous spring (detailed in my memoir, "Heaven Sent") caused all of the students and most of the teachers to believe that I had been sent by God. To make a long story short, I managed -- mostly with mirrors and sleight of the hand -- to meet their wild expectations and grew to love these children that needed me therapeutically. But when the 8th grade school year was over, I wasn't allowed to go to their high school. As psychologists for the school system had anticipated, once removed from the scene where they had been traumatized, they needed to black out all memory of that scene and everyone connected with it, which included me. I realized that the whole world might be as crazy as it is due to shared traumas of our prehistoric past. I made it my goal to discover what those traumas were. It took me over 50 years. I had to major in comparative political-economic systems at college, study every social science discipline from every aspect, become part of a UN family, travel to 26 countries, live on three continents and drive a NYC taxi for many years, which kept me in touch with people from every country and walk of life -- but I did it. I figured out all the basics. I'm still not happy. Reading my books won't make you happy either. But they will inform you of what we have to do to make our world civilized and sustainable and guarantee love and happy marriages -- for all of us.

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      Social Harmony as Measured by Music - David Huttner

      Social Harmony

      As Measured

      By Music [1]

      (What Music Reflects about Society, Why Music is Dying and What we Should Do about it)

      By

      David Huttner

      Version 4.1, Release Date: May 18, 2019

      Copyright 2019, By David Robert Huttner

      Published by David Huttner at Smashwords

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your enjoyment only, then please return to Smashwords.com or your favorite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Please email your comments, questions and suggestions to me, David Huttner, at [email protected].

      Contents

      Other Works by David Huttner

      Pre-1937

      Post 1937

      Two Subtle and Unanticipated Changes Brought By WWII

      Attempts to Put a Happy Face on the Tragedy

      Elvis Presley

      The 1960s Were the Low Point

      Today’s Pop Music and Music’s Future, if it’s to have one

      Endnotes

      Connect with Dave

      Other works of David Huttner, Available at Smashwords and soon to be Available in Hardcopy at DavidHuttnerBooks.com, Include:

      Decoding the Deluge and finding the path for civilization (3 volumes)

      Irish Mythology passageway to prehistory

      Heaven Sent

      The First Christmas (a short play)

      Stage II of the Nonviolent Rainbow Revolution

      Just Say No to Latent Homosexual Crusades

      Making the Objective and Subjective Worlds One

      Selected Works of David Huttner, Volumes 1 and 2

      Just Say No to Latent Homosexual Crusades

      Converting the World to English

      Pre-1937

      As with the birds, so with us too, music has always been and probably always will be mostly about courtship. Music being largely about love and courtship means also that the quality of music in any society is apt to be a good barometer

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