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6 ’In the United States and in all advanced industrialized countries,…musical practices
do not “start” when we pick up an instrument or when we pay attention to what is
happening in any given song. We enter a world of music already in progress around
us…. We encounter music everywhere—at the schools and at symphony halls, in the
churches and the taverns, on the radio and the television. Our musical practices…
function as nodes in a larger network, as complicated and diverse ways for people to
reaffirm old identities and to forge new ones’ (pp. xx–xi, emphasis added).
7 To be fair, Lipsitz’s foreword does raise questions of this sort in an engaging and
insightful way, but expecting a ten-page introductory essay of this sort to serve as
the only extended critical commentary on the ramifications of the study is to place
an unfair burden on Lipsitz’s shoulders.

References

Deleuze, Gilles and Guattari, Felix. (1975/86) Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature,
translated by Dana Polan. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Grossberg, Lawrence. (1988) ‘Wandering audiences, nomadic critics’, Cultural Studies 2:
377–91.