
Jerrold Levinson on Music and Eros
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The Dangers of Sexuality in Music
I suppose it's the connection that both sex and music involve repeated performances of similar movements. But there are danger on the other side to thinking that sexuality is exactly like art, he says. In music you can be absorbed in the sensual moment when I'm going to ask the music, but you are still attending to form,. So they're like degrees of losing yourself, degrees of absorption.
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