 Bloch devotes a central chapter of his Spirit of Utopia to music, which he conceives of as a concerned with the inward side of the utopian dimension, and thus with humanity’s striving toward self-awareness and understanding. The chapter traces the unfolding of music’s utopian potential in the Western tradition. This restriction in focus seems to follow from an intentionally narrow conception of music, motivated by Bloch’s characterization of this art as concerned with the manifestation and development of interiority. He thus denies that civilizations such as the Greek and the Egyptian produced any music worth of interest, because their worldview was focused on exteriority and visuality (Bloch 1918, “The Mystery”).