A big part of social subordination and discrimination is to ascribe hyper-animality to other groups and use that as an excuse for subordinating them further.
Others have argued that, on the contrary, music, along with art and literature, is part of what makes people human; its absence would have a brutalising effect.
Okay. I understand your impulse to try to physically intimidate me. I mean, you can't compete with me on an intellectual level so you're driven to animalistic puffery.
The low beetling brows, and the criminal jaw, the bestiality of the whole countenance were new to the young man, though he was a type that Scotland Yard would have recognized at a glance.
But you can take advantage of Lecter's hubris, because the last thing he would expect is that you would be willing to forego our polite social contract and jump straight into an animalistic frenzy.