We Should Teach Music History Backwards
Not just music history, but history in general.History told forwards is superstition: trying to show that what came after was inevitable, when in fact it was one future among an infinite number of different possible futures.History told backwards makes sense: look for the seeds of post events, in the past.However the human mind loves nothing more than causation; we see cause and effect everywhere even where it's not, we like "stories", we don't understand, don't believe in, and outright reject chance.