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"This egocentric and essentially lonely aesthetic is shaped, though, by an equally passionate drive to share our musical tastes. Music has become more important too for our social in*******se, in gift relations and the understanding of collective identities, to intimacy and our reading of our own and other people’s feelings. Live musical performance matters, then, for two reasons. On the one hand, it is a public celebration of musical commitment, a deeply pleasurable event at which our understanding of ourselves through music is socially recog- nised. On the other hand, it is a site in which to explore - for ourselves - how performance works. And, of course, where there are social desires, there will be entrepreneurs - promoters, ready, at a price, to meet them."

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