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Article: Dangerous music: we are tuned by music that possesses us and leads us to a home where we have not yet been.
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- Presbyterian Record
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- October 1, 2000
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Music is dangerous. The opening phrase of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony was a threat to the Third Reich but a signal of encouragement to those who resisted Hitler in occupied Europe. When Finland was under occupation, the Nazis prohibited the playing of Finlandia for it stiffened the opposition to oppression. The music of Mikis Theodorakis, known best for the music in Zorba the Greek, was once banned in Greece as a threat to the government. He is quoted as saying, "My songs are stronger than tanks." The power of apartheid in South Africa was largely destroyed by the singing of a faithful people. Hatikva (Hope), the Jewish national anthem, was proudly played in the Warsaw ...
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