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Over the Rainbow? On the quest for ‘the social ’ in musical analysis

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Peter J. Martin
Peter J. Martin*
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The Faculty of Social Sciences and LawUniversity of Manchester
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Journal of the Royal Musical Association , Volume 127 , Issue 1 , 2002 , pp. 130 - 146
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