ABSTRACT
In his book Music, Society, Education, the musicologist Christopher Small suggested that consumerism has led to music in the West (and increasingly in India, Indochina, Africa and everywhere else) becoming a product rather than a process. In the following passage, he discusses the effects of Western consumerism on traditional Balinese virtues of valuing the moment, collectivism and spontaneity. The same points may be made about African music too.
