411 Walt Whitman - A New Hope
The History of Literature
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The Western Canon by Harold Bloom
The critic harold bloom considered where america stood in relationship to european art and artists. He seems to have eliminated most forms of music from the consideration other than classical music. It's ok to use bach and mozart and beethoven as a standard, but when he reaches down to strevinsky and shernberg and bartok,. i don't know why we can't include duke eling ton and gershwin and john williams on his list.
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