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Come See about Me: Why the Baby Boomers Liked Stax but Loved Motown

Gary Kenton, 'Baby Boomers and Popular Culture' (Praeger Books), 2015

ETHNOMUSICOLOGIST and anthropologist Steven Feld studied how meanings are reconstituted when music moves from indigenous communities to a global market. He argues that you cannot separate music from the social identity of the people who make it (Feld and Keill, 1994).

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