Social Function
Music genres can be identified by their social function. Trivial examples are wedding music and Christmas music.
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“America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.”
—C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)
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—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)