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' In "Towards an Aesthetic of Popular Music" Simon Frith (1987) argues that popular music has 4 social functions that account for its value and popularity in society. Popular music:

  1. allows us to answer questions about our own identity and place in society
  2. help us manage the relationship between our public and private emotional lives
  3. help us organize our sense of time and shapes popular memory
  4. is something that is possessed

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  1. ^ Frith, Simon (1987). Music & Society: The Politics of Consumption, Performance and Reception. Cambridge University Press. p. 133-151. ISBN 9780521379779. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)