The Songs of Mermaids and Other Untutored Savages
Three unhappy listeners describe music from other cultures. “It is perhaps all we could expect from untutored savages, but there is nothing about it which has ever struck me as either interesting or amusing.” “the howls, yells, hoots and whoops, the snuffling, wheezing, bubbling, groveling and stamping—they form a concert to whose savagery we cannot attempt to do justice” “the most horrible noise, a loud and screechy wailing, filled the room” The first quote is from Henry Sch
