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[…] business. So they piped Italian opera through their speakers. It had the desired effect. Clearly, many of the factors that lead us to be attracted – or not – to certain musical forms are quite extrinsic to the music itself: sociological rather than musical. It depends on one’s upbringing whether certain music is, say, cool and sexy – or repulsive. (Opera is sexy for some.) The English writer Philip Larkin was famously described (by Eric Homberger) as “the saddest heart in the post-war supermarket.” Larkin played up to this image, remarking that deprivation for him was what daffodils were for Wordsworth. He loved jazz and wrote about it and readily admitted that, for him, above all jazz meant sex. Rock inherited that cool and sexy image. Of course, in the past other musical forms would have played a similar role to that played by jazz and rock in the 20th […]
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