Excerpts from reviews of Dionysos
Rising: The Birth of Cultural Revolution out of the Spirit of Music ($24.95
+ S&H) by E. Michael Jones, Ph.D.
"It hits many a nail on the
head and names many a problem that needs a name." VROON, American
Record Guide.
"E. Michael Jones posits the highly povocative thesis that the roots of
cultural upheavel that culminated in the sixties can be traced back to Richard
Wagner's revolt against classical rational ideals in musical composition
coupled with his 'revolutionary' sexual ethics. The book is gripping in its
story line - Nietzsche, Schonberg, and Mick Jagger form the rest of Jones's
main cast ... Jones puts his finger on a notion that is at least as old as
Plato's Republic. Music, he contends, acts directly on the soul. Disordered
music leads to disordered lives, which lead to disorder in the state. ... The
idea deserves thoughtful consideration." E.W.C., The Religion and
Society Report.
"E. Michael Jones takes a meat axe to Wagner's Tristan und Isolde in his
provocative Dionysos Rising. Great book ..." Douglas Wilson, Agenda
Magazine.
"... well-written and lucid. Catholics engaged in the Culture of Life will
find the book indispensible." Michael Chapman, HLI Reports.
"For a first hand account of how the Western musical tradition was
deconstructed, there is no better place to begin than with E. Michael Jones'
eminently readable book." Social Justice Review.
"Music can help a person develop an ordered and virtuous soul, or it can
tend to disrupt a person's soul. This fact was extensively illustrated by E.
Michael Jones in 'Dionysos Rising.'" Eric J. Scheske, New Covenant.
"… highly acclaimed trilogy on
modernity: Degenerate Modems, Dionysos Rising, and
Living Machines." Reformation
& Revival Journal.
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