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The politics, aesthetics and dissonance of music in everyday life

Issue: Vol 13 No. 1-2 (2019) Special Issue: Jazz and Everyday Aesthetics

Abstract:

This article will offer some thoughts on the relationship between the everyday and therole of music. It will look at how critics and artists have established the importance ofthe everyday, and how this has appeared in their work. It will then explore what musicin the everyday reveals about the nature of modern society.

Author: Roger Fagge

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