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Article: Labour's pop culture project is doomed Podium; From a speech by the cultural critic to the Social Market Foundation on the limits of `new' Britain
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 25, 1999
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THIS MAY seem like a mad thing to say but, without Schubert and
Titian, nothing makes sense. Obviously you could substitute any
number of other names, or things, or even institutions, but the point
would remain the same. Human culture is defined by and exists in
relation to certain works. Those works may seem arbitrary, but, in
fact, they are not. They are not arbitrary because they are, above
all, transmissible.
I am fairly confident that any human being who ever lived could be
brought to an understanding of Schubert. I am even more confident
that the knowledge of Schubert - or even the mere fact of his
existence - is a way of assessing the world in which we find
ourselves. Put more ...