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== "Four social functions of popular music" == In "Towards an Aesthetic of Popular Music" Simon Frith (1987) argues that [[popular music]] has four social functions that account for its value and popularity in society.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Frith|first1=Simon|title=Music & Society: The Politics of Consumption, Performance and Reception|date=1987|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-37977-9|pages=[https://archive.org/details/musicsocietypoli0000unse_v3g7/page/133 133β151]|url=https://archive.org/details/musicsocietypoli0000unse_v3g7/page/133}}</ref> Popular music: # ''We enjoy popular music is because of its use in answering questions of identity.'' # ''To give us a way of managing the relationship between our public and private emotional lives.'' # ''To shape popular memory, to organize our sense of time.'' # ''Popular music is something possessed.''
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