Outra realidade

Anne-François-Louis Janmot, Le Poème de l'âme (séc. XIX, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon)

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«(…) Music, like reading (another private pleasure which can be done in public, on trains or buses), has often offered a sort of inner landscape of feelings, emotions and associations to which we can retreat from the bustle and hassle of the “real world”, a sort of “second world”, adjacent to but separate from the everyday one. We can tune in, through music, to the imagination, or escape into ourselves (…).»

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du Gay, P., Hall, S., James, L., Mackay, H. and Negus, K. (1997) Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the Sony Walkman. Sage Publications (in association with the OpenUniversity), p. 20.