A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

[A discontinuous format ] …is like the detective story. It involves you more deeply. It arouses curiosity more than any possible connection could do. But the strange fact about the missing link or about a discontinuity is that the audience leaps to fill it in, and this is true in jazz and so on. But at any rate, I think it fair to say that jazz and rock have turned English into a world language because you cannot sing jazz or rock in any other language but English.
“Art as Survival in the Electric Age” (1973), in Understanding Me (2003), p 217
Year: 1973
Chapter: Discontinuity
Compiled by William Kuhns
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