ie once it gets studied it cannonizes and limits innovation

BUT

Without looking outside of itself for context I think similarly innovation can be stagnated. In pusic in particular the biggest innovations generally come from outside. And if you have a music which hasn't created a bridge between other musics, it has no appreciation of where it fits into it all and thus how it can be a guiding force for new innovation. Hip-hop has done a ot of incredible things for music as a whole, and yet it cannot even recognize its greatness nor utilize that to push itself forward. I dont' put all of the blame on this on academics, as the myopia is self inflicted as well, but I will cite this as a point which still remains to be addressed. If we know that MCing is the best display of microtonal vocal melodies, what we can learn about microntonalities could inform new styles of rhyme. Will it produce new classics? Who knows, but it could spur innovation which would otherwise go in explored.
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