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PORTABLE MUSIC AND ITS FUNCTIONS - ANDREW WILLI...

Using iPods or portable CD players  millions of people take their music with them every day to
modify their daily experiences. Encased in headphones  they listen to music for entertainment 
but also use it  among other things  as a buffer between themselves and the world outside  and
to manage their moods. What is it about music that makes it useful in different ways to so many
people? Have people always used music in these ways  or only since the technology of the
Walkman and then the mp3 player made music portable? In this wide-ranging exploration of how
and why we use portable music  Andrew Williams sheds new light on the role music plays in our
everyday lives. Portable Music and Its Functions will be of use to students and scholars of
sociology and cultural studies as well as of musicology.

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