All Shook Up: Music, Passion, and Politics Audiobook (Free)

The national debate over popular music’s effect on character is both furious and confused. Conservatives complain mainly about lyrics, attractive to public decency and security. Liberals, swift towards the defense of any self-expression, concurrently celebrate rock’s liberating ethos and deny its cultural influence. Carson Holloway has gone out to shatter the assumptions of pop’s critics and defenders as well, showing that music is definitely more helpful than we think.

Plato and Aristotle, Holloway sees, were aware that music can either inflame the spirit with enthusiasm or may awaken it to cause and help cultivate temperance. What Holloway proposes-a rediscovery of the musical intelligence of Plato and Aristotle-will totally change just how we consider music.