But so pervasive, eminently human, and fundamentally non-utilitarian a cultural product as music leaves in its wake like an atom its trail in a cloud chamber -- a tantalizing hint or a passageway, as Levi-Strauss believes, for the discovery of something essential to the mystery of ourselves.

Neuman, Daniel

1990 (1980) The Life of Music in North India: The Social Organization of an Artistic Tradition. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. (2d ed.)