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music professor at University of Arizona, where he also directs the American Culture and Ideas Initiative.

He edited the future of high culture in America and now has a new book, a collection of pieces entitled

Observations on Music, Culture, and Politics. That's our topic today. Welcome, Professor Asia.

Thank you so much. I appreciate it. First, let me go back to a term in your previous book, High Culture. Now, that's an unpopular

term in academia today, isn't it? Yes, it most certainly is.

Apparently one is supposed to make any judgments and one isn't supposed to make any hierarchies

in our current culture.

I consider that a, I use the word advisedly, but a somewhat dangerous situation and a dangerous way

of approaching things.

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