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1848 Music has a double history, social and stylistic. A sociology of musical language might hope to reveal that at very deep levels they are tightly meshed, even that they make a single statement. Yet that is far from obvious. This book is cautious about any assumptions of a closed and unified cultural field, in which all opposing tendencies would be related dialectically. Its authors have been content to outline areas of interaction between musical life and musical language without adopting at the outset any single explanatory theory. Such at least is our starting-point. At the same time we recognize that areas of interaction have a way of generating patterns and, as the patterns multiply, some tentative notion of a deeper unity may present itself after all — not a single statement, perhaps, but an intricate web of intersecting causal threads.
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Samson, J. (1991). Music and Society. In: Samson, J. (eds) The Late Romantic Era. Man & Music. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11300-2_1
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