The politics, aesthetics and dissonance of music in everyday life
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https://doi.org/10.1558/jazz.39944Keywords:
jazz, everyday aesthetics, historyAbstract
This article will offer some thoughts on the relationship between the everyday and the role 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 music in the everyday reveals about the nature of modern society.
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