Music and cultural transformation

Nietzsche gave great attention to music as the basis for cultural transformation. He saw Wagner's music-dramas as creating such a cultural transformation, which they did. We can see the power of rock music in the 1960's which had much to do with transforming a conservative culture into a modern liberal culture. And rap music now has again transformed popular culture toward a more African-American ethos. Did the money behind this music know this would happen?

The impulse to culture, as Nietzsche called it, can be more deeply seen in the creation and maintenance of religion, which sociobiology has confirmed as the impulse to bonding for success in survival and reproduction---groups bonded in religious altruism have done far better than non-altruistic groups.

Music will be needed to help bring theological materialism and the Theoevolutionary Church foreword. But great art is not merely for our education, great art also affirms the sacred in intuitive and emotional ways, more like music than words.