[lbo-talk] class and classical music

[James Heartfield]

Matthias wrote about ... a just-so story about the origins of music,..

I think that George Thomson and Christopher Caudwell did write a number of speculative essays on early song and poems. They put more stress on songs of work and their elaboration. Caudwell was something of a Jack of all Trades, but Thomson was well-steeped in classics