# Artistic Expression and the Hard Case of Pure Music **Opening (not a real abstract):** Artistic Expression and the Hard Case of Pure Music Stephen Davies, Philosophy, University of Auckland Important note: This is a final draft and differs from the definitive version, which is published in Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art, Matthew Kieran (ed), (Oxford: if they have made this publicly available then it does not violate the publisher's copyright rules. **Authors:** [[Davies]]