音楽の危機

ファンを自認する岡田暁生の『音楽の危機』は小林秀雄賞までとり帯には書評続出とあり期待したが、肩透かしだった。2020年に初版が出た時はコロナが始まりまさに音楽でも、科学でも、危機に陥ったものはいろいろあったし深刻だった。あれから4年経つと予想通り世の中あの時のようには見えない。この手の本は生物だ。Akio Okada, whom I am a self-proclaimed fan, won the Hideo Kobayashi Award for “Music crisis” and I had high hopes for the book as it received many reviews, but I was disappointed. When the first edition was published in 2000, the coronavirus pandemic had just started, and there were many things in crisis, both music and science, and it was serious. Four years have passed since then, and as expected, the world no longer looks the same. This kind of book is a living thing.