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  • Reflections on the Music of Ennio Morricone: Fame and Legacy by Sciannameo, Franco
    Franco Sciannameo

    Reflections on the Music of Ennio Morricone: Fame and Legacy

    Reflections on the Music of Ennio Morricone: Fame and Legacy provides new contextualized perspectives on Ennio Morricone's position as a radical composer working at the cutting edge of music within the frame work of his cinematic compositions. The Italian composer has reached world fame...
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  • The Oxford Handbook of Social Justice in Music Education by Benedict, Cathy
    Cathy Benedict

    The Oxford Handbook of Social Justice in Music Education

    Music education has historically had a tense relationship with social justice. One the one hand, educators concerned with music practices have long preoccupied themselves with ideas of open participation and the potentially transformative capacity that musical interaction fosters. On the other hand, they have...
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  • The Aesthetics of Imperfection in Music and the Arts: Spontaneity, Flaws and the Unfinished by Hamilton, Andy
    Andy Hamilton

    The Aesthetics of Imperfection in Music and the Arts: Spontaneity, Flaws and the Unfinished

    The aesthetics of imperfectionemphasises spontaneity, disruption, process and energy over formal perfection and is often ignored by many commentators or seen only in improvisation. This comprehensive collection is the first time imperfection has been explored across all kinds of musical performance, whether improvisation or...
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  • Renegades: Born in the USA by Obama, Barack
    Barack Obama

    Renegades: Born in the USA

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Two longtime friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music, and their enduring love of America, with all its challenges and contradictions, in this stunningly produced expansion of their groundbreaking Higher Ground podcast, featuring more than 350...
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  • Paris Blue: A Memoir of First Love by Scolnik, Julie
    Julie Scolnik

    Paris Blue: A Memoir of First Love

    PARIS, 1976: Twenty-year-old American student Julie Scolnik had just arrived in the City of Light to study the flute when, from across a sea of faces in the chorus of the Orchestre de Paris, she is drawn to Luc, a striking (married) French lawyer...
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  • Paris Blue: A Memoir of First Love by Scolnik, Julie
    Julie Scolnik

    Paris Blue: A Memoir of First Love

    PARIS, 1976: Twenty-year-old American student Julie Scolnik had just arrived in the City of Light to study the flute when, from across a sea of faces in the chorus of the Orchestre de Paris, she is drawn to Luc, a striking (married) French lawyer...
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  • We Are Music: An Existential Journey Toward Infinity by Sharpley, John Stephen
    John Stephen Sharpley

    We Are Music: An Existential Journey Toward Infinity

    What is music?Modern society has come to view music largely as entertainment and commodity. In response, We Are Music: An Existential Journey Toward Infinity provides the reader with a holistic starting point. Music has unlimited potential to transform and enlighten, and is only impeded...
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  • Sound Art Revisited by Licht, Alan
    Alan Licht

    Sound Art Revisited

    The first edition of Sound Art Revisited (published as Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories) served as a groundbreaking work toward defining this emerging field, and this fully updated volume significantly expands the story to include current research since the book's initial release. Viewed...
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  • Sound Healing & Values Visualization: Creating a Life of Value by Beaulieu, John
    John Beaulieu

    Sound Healing & Values Visualization: Creating a Life of Value

    OUR INTENTIONS CAN BE TUNED TO OUR HIGHEST VALUES.This ground breaking and pioneering new work explores the vibratory nature of existence through science, mindful listening, and creative sound explorations. The Values Visualization(TM) Process, designed by Dr. Beaulieu, is presented to create highly-tuned intentions, based...
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  • The Spirit of Music: The Lesson Continues by Wooten, Victor L.
    Victor L. Wooten

    The Spirit of Music: The Lesson Continues

    Grammy Award winner Victor Wooten's inspiring parable of the importance of music and the threats that it faces in today's world. We may not realize it as we listen to the soundtrack of our lives through tiny earbuds, but music and all that it...
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  • My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song by Bingham, Emily
    Emily Bingham

    My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song

    The long journey of an American song, passed down from generation to generation, bridging a nation's fraught disconnect between history and warped illusion, revealing the country's ever evolving self. MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME, from its enormous success in the early 1850s, written by a...
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  • The Beatles and Sgt. Pepper: A Fans' Perspective by Spizer, Bruce
    Bruce Spizer

    The Beatles and Sgt. Pepper: A Fans' Perspective

    Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the most famous album by the most famous band in the history of rock 'n' roll. It became the soundtrack for the Summer of Love (1967), with its music constantly flowing out of Hi-Fi systems, portable record...
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  • You're History: The Twelve Strangest Women in Music by Chow, Lesley
    Lesley Chow

    You're History: The Twelve Strangest Women in Music

    Raucous, sensual and sublime: how twelve pioneering female artists rewrote the rules of pop. From Kate Bush to Nicki Minaj, from Janet Jackson to TLC and Taylor Swift, pop's greatest female pioneers are simply strange smashing notions of taste and decorum, and replacing them...
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  • Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time by Hodges, Natalie
    Natalie Hodges

    Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time

    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLISTNPR "BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR" SELECTIONNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE A virtuosic debut from a gifted violinist searching for a new mode of artistic becomingHow does time shape consciousness and consciousness, time? Do we live in time, or does time...
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  • Rock and Roll, Social Protest, and Authenticity: Historical, Philosophical, and Cultural Explorations by Torell, Kurt
    Kurt Torell

    Rock and Roll, Social Protest, and Authenticity: Historical, Philosophical, and Cultural Explorations

    This book explores the relationships between rock and roll, social protest, and authenticity to consider how rock and roll could function as social protest music. The author begins by discussing the nature and origins of rock and roll and the nature of social protest...
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  • Why Bob Dylan Matters by Thomas, Richard F.
    Richard F. Thomas

    Why Bob Dylan Matters

    "The coolest class on campus" - The New York TimesWhen the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged. Some celebrated, while many others questioned the choice. How could the world's most prestigious book prize be awarded to...
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  • Pick a Pocket or Two: A History of British Musical Theatre by Mordden, Ethan
    Ethan Mordden

    Pick a Pocket or Two: A History of British Musical Theatre

    From Gilbert and Sullivan to Andrew Lloyd Webber, from Julie Andrews to Hugh Jackman, from Half a Sixpence to Matilda, Pick a Pocket Or Two is the story of the British musical: where it began and how it developed. In Pick a Pocket Or...
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  • Playing the Piano for Pleasure: The Classic Guide to Improving Skills Through Practice and Discipline by Cooke, Charles
    Charles Cooke

    Playing the Piano for Pleasure: The Classic Guide to Improving Skills Through Practice and Discipline

    Skyhorse Publishing is proud to revive Playing Piano for Pleasure. With the wonderful writing one would expect from a longtime New Yorker reporter, Piano aficionado Charles Cooke, offers concrete routines for improving your piano performance. A pleasant and constant cheerleader, Cooke asks readers to...
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  • The Self-Restorative Power of Music: A Psychological Perspective by Lachmann, Frank M.
    Frank M. Lachmann

    The Self-Restorative Power of Music: A Psychological Perspective

    This book explores how we can understand the place of music from a self psychological perspective, by investigating three journeys: the one we take when listening to music, the literal journey of the author from Nazi Germany to the United States, and the subjective...
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  • Old Records Never Die: One Man's Quest for His Vinyl and His Past by Spitznagel, Eric
    Eric Spitznagel

    Old Records Never Die: One Man's Quest for His Vinyl and His Past

    A Hudson Booksellers Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year, with foreword by Wilco's Jeff Tweedy High Fidelity meets Killing Yourself to Live when one man searches for his lost record collection. As he finds himself within spitting distance of middle-age, journalist Eric Spitznagel feels...
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  • The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places by Krause, Bernie
    Bernie Krause

    The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places

    A "passionate amalgam of science and autobiography" that will leave you hearing -- and seeing -- nature as never before (New York Times Book Review). Musician and naturalist Bernie Krause is one of the world's leading experts in natural sound, and he's spent his...
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  • Raise the Song: A Classical Christian Guide to Music Education by Richey, Jarrod
    Jarrod Richey

    Raise the Song: A Classical Christian Guide to Music Education

    With technology, music has never been more constant. It is heard on phones and in waiting rooms, in coffee shops and on television. Despite such exposure, the number of people able to make music for themselves is dwindling. Classical Christian schools have a unique...
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  • Neon Screams: How Drill, Trap and Bashment Made Music New Again by Mackintosh, Kit
    Kit Mackintosh

    Neon Screams: How Drill, Trap and Bashment Made Music New Again

    Examining new genres from the UK and across the Atlantic, including mumble rap, Brooklyn drill, UK drill, trap dancehall and Afrobeats, Neon Screams explores the dystopias and dissociative transcendence offered by this boundary-pushing music. With a foreword by Simon Reynolds, Neon Screams explores the...
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  • There Was a Time: James Brown, the Chitlin' Circuit, and Me by Leeds, Alan
    Alan Leeds

    There Was a Time: James Brown, the Chitlin' Circuit, and Me

    As seen in the Wall Street Journal "Alan Leeds was a proteg of James Brown and a true historian of the world that nurtured the great entertainer. Alan was a witness to the vibrant black music scene of the '60s and '70s--whose book is...
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  • The Musician's Career Guide: Turning Your Talent Into Sustained Success by Owens, Ulysses
    Ulysses Owens

    The Musician's Career Guide: Turning Your Talent Into Sustained Success

    An Engaging and Accessible Guide to Achieving Sustained Access in the Music Industry As a musician, how can you blend art and survival and still keep loving the business? The Musician's Career Guide, written from the perspective of someone who has engaged in the...
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  • Re-Sounding: introducing an alternative metaphor for organization change by Spann, Rik
    Rik Spann

    Re-Sounding: introducing an alternative metaphor for organization change

    The challenges we encounter in our everyday world(s) require updated and sophisticated types of 'conversation', literally and in a wider sense. It's not just about the content, it's about the relationships, the interactions. Embodied sensemaking offers ideas; the worlds of music, art and design...
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  • The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung by Scruton, Roger
    Roger Scruton

    The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung

    "Nothing in opera is grander than The Ring, no work more suited to the deep reading the writer gives here." --Opera NewsRichard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung is one of the greatest works of art created in modern times, and has fascinated both critics...
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  • The Music Advantage: How Music Helps Your Child Develop, Learn, and Thrive by Collins, Anita
    Anita Collins

    The Music Advantage: How Music Helps Your Child Develop, Learn, and Thrive

    An expert in cognitive development and music education reveals the remarkable and surprising benefits that playing--or even appreciating--music offers to children. The latest cognitive research has revealed something extraordinary: learning music and listening to music can grow and repair our brains at any age....
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  • Nietzsche's the Case of Wagner and Nietzsche Contra Wagner by Harvey, Ryan
    Ryan Harvey

    Nietzsche's the Case of Wagner and Nietzsche Contra Wagner

    Wagner was a lifelong obsession for Nietzsche. No other topic or figure more consistently and persistently appears in Nietzsche's books from beginning to end as do Wagner and his theories. For the first time, Ryan Harvey and Aaron Ridley put Wagner centre-stage in their...
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  • The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Brain by Thaut, Michael H.
    Michael H. Thaut

    The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Brain

    The study of music and the brain can be traced back to the work of Gall in the 18th century, continuing with John Hughlings Jackson, August Knoblauch, Richard Wallaschek, and others. These early researchers were interested in localizing musicality in the brain and learning...
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  • The Hum of the World: A Philosophy of Listening by Kramer, Lawrence
    Lawrence Kramer

    The Hum of the World: A Philosophy of Listening

    The Hum of the World is an invitation to contemplate what would happen if we heard the world as attentively as we see it. Balancing big ideas, playful wit and lyrical prose, this imaginative volume identifies the role of sound in Western experience as...
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  • The Mozart Effect for Children: Awakening Your Child's Mind, Health, and Creativity with Music by Campbell, Don
    Don Campbell

    The Mozart Effect for Children: Awakening Your Child's Mind, Health, and Creativity with Music

    In his groundbreaking book, The Mozart Effect(R), Don Campbell revealed the enormous healing powers of classical music. Now he shows you how to help the children in your life experience the same benefits.You don't have to be an expert on classical music to use...
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  • No Apocalypse: Punk, Politics, and the Great American Weirdness by Burian, Al
    Al Burian

    No Apocalypse: Punk, Politics, and the Great American Weirdness

    War seems to have frazzled the punks. That's an unusual turn of events considering punk is the subculture that gave us the phrases"let's have a war," "let's start a war," "war on 45," "my war," "wargasm," "war all the time," and so on. "Rock...
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  • This Is America: Race, Gender, and Politics in America's Musical Landscape by Rios, Katie
    Katie Rios

    "This Is America": Race, Gender, and Politics in America's Musical Landscape

    In "This Is America" Race, Gender, and Politics in America's Musical Landscape, Katie Rios argues that prominent American artists and musicians build encoded gestures of resistance into their works and challenge the status quo. These artists offer both an interpretation and a critique of...
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  • The Oxford Handbook of Community Music by Bartleet, Brydie-Leigh
    Brydie-Leigh Bartleet

    The Oxford Handbook of Community Music

    Community music as a field of practice, pedagogy, and research has come of age. The past decade has witnessed an exponential growth in practices, courses, programs, and research in communities and classrooms, and within the organizations dedicated to the subject. The Oxford Handbook of...
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  • The Art of Appreciation: Music and Middlebrow Culture in Modern Britainvolume 30 by Guthrie, Kate
    Kate Guthrie

    The Art of Appreciation: Music and Middlebrow Culture in Modern Britain Volume 30

    From the BBC Proms to Bernstein's Young People's Concerts, initiatives to promote classical music have been a pervasive feature of twentieth-century musical life. The goal of these initiatives was rarely just to reach a larger and more diverse audience but to teach a particular...
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  • Portraying Performer Image in Record Album Cover Art by Bielen, Ken
    Ken Bielen

    Portraying Performer Image in Record Album Cover Art

    In this work, Ken Bielen explains how album cover art authenticates recording artists in a particular genre. He considers albums issued from the 1950s to the 1980s, the golden era of record album cover art. The whole album package is studied, including the front...
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  • The Spirit of Resistance in Music and Spoken Word of South Africa's Eastern Cape by Michie, Lindsay
    Lindsay Michie

    The Spirit of Resistance in Music and Spoken Word of South Africa's Eastern Cape

    From an array of prominent activists including Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko to renowned performers and oral poets such as Johnny Dyani and Samuel Mqhayi, the Eastern Cape region plays a unique role in the history of South African protest politics and creativity. The...
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  • Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization by Isacoff, Stuart
    Stuart Isacoff

    Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization

    Few music lovers realize that the arrangement of notes on today's pianos was once regarded as a crime against God and nature, or that such legendary thinkers as Pythagoras, Plato, da Vinci, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton and Rousseau played a role in the controversy....
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  • The Philosophy of Rhythm: Aesthetics, Music, Poetics by Cheyne, Peter
    Peter Cheyne

    The Philosophy of Rhythm: Aesthetics, Music, Poetics

    Rhythm is the fundamental pulse that animates poetry, music, and dance across all cultures. And yet the recent explosion of scholarly interest across disciplines in the aural dimensions of aesthetic experience--particularly in sociology, cultural and media theory, and literary studies--has yet to explore this...
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  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class by Peddie, Ian
    Ian Peddie

    The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class

    The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class is the first extensive analysis of the most important themes and concepts in this field. Encompassing contemporary research in ethnomusicology, sociology, cultural studies, history, and race studies, the volume explores the intersections between music and...
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  • Record Collecting for Girls: Unleashing Your Inner Music Nerd, One Album at a Time by Smith, Courtney E.
    Courtney E. Smith

    Record Collecting for Girls: Unleashing Your Inner Music Nerd, One Album at a Time

    "Record Collecting for Girls is an invitation for all of you stereophiles (who happen to be female), to make your own top-five lists, and then, armed and ready with the book's fun facts, to argue their merits to the ever-present boys' club of music...
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  • Trips: Rock Life in the Sixties--Augmented Edition by Sander, Ellen
    Ellen Sander

    Trips: Rock Life in the Sixties--Augmented Edition

    "Name an iconic Sixties rock moment and Ellen Sander was probably there. A beautifully written, sweeping yet intimate account of America's cultural awakening in that decade. Massively entertaining" -- Rolling Stone A #1 Amazon Bestseller: Musical Philosophy & Social Aspects As a pioneering rock...
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  • The Polyphony of Life by Pangritz, Andreas
    Andreas Pangritz

    The Polyphony of Life

    This fascinating book, which explores an intriguing idea formulated by Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the very last months of his life, has up until now been available only to German readers. Since Polyphonie des Lebens first appeared twenty-five years ago, a whole new generation of...
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  • The Present and Future of Music Law by Harrison, Ann
    Ann Harrison

    The Present and Future of Music Law

    The music business is a multifaceted, transnational industry that operates within complex and rapidly changing political, economic, cultural and technological contexts. The mode and manner of how music is created, obtained, consumed and exploited is evolving rapidly. It is based on relationships that can...
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  • Performance, Subjectivity, and Experimentation by Laws, Catherine
    Catherine Laws

    Performance, Subjectivity, and Experimentation

    Music reflects subjectivity and identity: that idea is now deeply ingrained in both musicology and popular media commentary. The study of music across cultures and practices often addresses the enactment of subjectivity "in" music - how music expresses or represents "an" individual or "a"...
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  • Tune in: Use Music Intentionally to Curb Stress, Boost Morale, and Restore Health. a Music Therapy Approach to Life by Buchanan, Jennifer
    Jennifer Buchanan

    Tune in: Use Music Intentionally to Curb Stress, Boost Morale, and Restore Health. a Music Therapy Approach to Life

    'Tune In' is an award-winning book by certified music therapist Jennifer Buchanan.'Tune In' details how music is being used and can be used, to improve the mental health and well-being of individuals, communities, and organizations.When we experience the right music, in the right way,...
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  • Music: The Definitive Visual History by DK
    DK

    Music: The Definitive Visual History

    A complete and harmonious history of music, from prehistory to the present day! Have you ever wondered how blues influenced rock music? Or why jazz took a more Latin-American approach? Classical or rock, everyone has their favorite music style, but how did your top...
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  • Playlisting: Collecting Music, Remediated by Sesigür, Onur
    Onur Sesig?

    Playlisting: Collecting Music, Remediated

    This book examines the collection and curation of music, and the way digital streaming services are transforming the way we engage with the media. The study foregrounds personal digital curation techniques, rather than algorithms or technology, to acknowledge the sustaining human agency involved in...
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  • Musician's Survival Guide to a Killer Record by Mixerman
    Mixerman

    Musician's Survival Guide to a Killer Record

    Musician's RecordIt takes many years to excel at recording (whether at home or in a commercial facility), and if you desire to become a professional recordist then that's what's required. But if you're a musician who wants to garner a reaction to your song,...
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