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Wilfred and Andrew broke in simultaneously: Andrew shouted: “No one forces you to go to a concert! I don’t see John Cage knocking on your door with a policeman, forcing you to go to his concerts!” “You’re trying to tell me!” The manner in Wilfred pointed at Antonio one might think he held a cello bow in his hands “that you approve of government censorship of music – in the name of the people no less!” Antonio was not easily intimidated: “Yes, I do”, he responded, calmly but firmly, “I’ve been a Marxist all my adult years. As a Marxist I don’t believe that culture is an end in itself, a kind of Absolute Good, a ladder to the heavens outside of all social, historical and economic contexts. So-called avant-garde music, I say ‘so-called’ because I see nothing ‘vanguard’ in it, is deeply neurotic, a fraud, a symptom of all that is wrong with American society, a decadent sideshow of monopoly capitalism. In
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