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Music analysis and the social life of jazz recordings
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Recorded music long ago relieved us of the hard labor of performing what we wanted to hear. It relieved us of the necessity of going to a concert hall. And now it has even relieved us of any need to listen. In the soundtracking of America-in the constantly segueing fragments that fill our public
and private spaces-music is merely the inescapable background, the relentless mood-setter, the arbiter and signal of proper behavior.
-J. Bottum
Elaine: But Jerry! I'll be ostracized from the community!
Jerry: There's a community? all these years I've been living in a community and I never knew about ...
