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Small Voices Doomed—A Keynote

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2019

Gerhard Kubik
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“Small Voices Doomed” is the symbolic title of my presentation. I could have said “Soft Voices Doomed” to express the fact that we are living in an era in which loud and persistent voices tend to prevail. Technologies for the amplification and multiplication of messages were, of course, developed by “soft voices,” i.e., by a few individuals with extraordinary scientific talents. But their inventions have been hijacked by others who neither match up to the talents of the former, nor would they share their profits with them. The pertinent question therefore is how to deal with the ensuing pollution.

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Yearbook for Traditional Music , Volume 40 , 2008 , pp. 1 - 7
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Copyright © 2008 By The International Council for Traditional Music

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