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In a country concerned with its standard of living, we might also consider a standard of listening. Having listened to music from locations and time periods near and far, I’ve tried to keep my ears open to the parameters and definitions of musical expression. I rarely meet anyone with no opinion whatsoever regarding the potential of art—and, in particular, music—to influence a moment, or even an era.
The celebrated television journalist and anchor of ABC’s “Nightline,” Ted Koppel, shared a memorable nugget with Duke’s Class of ’87 at commencement. With a curious but charming coined term, he warned that optimistic graduating class that America was becoming “Vannatized.” When the word was first uttered, we all felt that he had caught us basking and aloof in our state of late-80s narcissism.
