Whole Lotta Shaking Goin” On

“Critic and defender, liberal and conservative, all utterly fail to grasp, first, the natural power of music itself—that is, music without words—to move the soul and , second, music’s consequent ability to aid or impede not only our question for a decent social order but also our striving for the goods in which we find our fullest happiness” [Carson Holloway, All Shook Up: Music, Passion, and Politics (Dallas: Spence Publishing, 2001), p. 6].