Noise pollution persists because music education neglected soundscape awareness

Evidence

If there is a noise pollution problem in the world today it is certainly partly and maybe largely owing to the fact that music educators have failed to give the public a total schooling in soundscape awareness, which has, since 1913, ceased to be divisible into musical and nonmusical kingdoms. — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 400

Categorization

• SEED: A provocative causal thesis: the noise problem is a music-education failure; the blurring of music and environmental sound after 1913 is its crux.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 400
• XREF: connects to: Headphone listening reveals sounds ordinarily outside awareness — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 279; Music alone can harmonize the inner world with the outer soundscape; The act of attentive listening actively enlivens the surrounding environment — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 347 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Headphone listening reveals sounds ordinarily outside awareness #qualifies (0.70) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 279
• Music alone can harmonize the inner world with the outer soundscape #expands (0.60)
• The act of attentive listening actively enlivens the surrounding environment #expands (0.60) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 347