National culture and music in higher education: through flesh to spirit: the making of "Prophecy for the end of days"

Abstract

Modern academic research and technological advance requires the reality of bureaucracy. In this brave new world of the managerial technocrat and the balance sheet, is music, or any art for that matter, an impractical and unprofitable, elitist and outdated luxury, we can no longer afford; one more distraction from the serious processes of higher education: promoting critical thinking and communication, math, science, history, literature and technology? In Global Culture is there any longer a meaning to national culture and tradition? Is there still a direction leading from materialism to enlightenment or is all only crass commercialism? If so, where, then, is this hidden path through flesh to spirit to be found. Is music a Way?