Music Is Number One Art Form

Ted Gioia tells us that there are over a thousand references to music in the bible and indeed in the Hebrew Genesis the creation of the world is spoken. In Ted Gioia's subversive history of music we're told that modern science simply repeats the nada Brahma of ancient Indian spirituality. We're told that in Hindu iconography Shiva is even depicted as holding a damaru or hourglass shaped drum in the moment of creation  a little bang doing the work of the big one surmised by physicists.