Is There a Way to Appreciate a Song on Its Own Terms?

There is no way to appreciate a song on its own terms. You are always thinking about it with some kind of biographical and cultural framing. In her paper, van dan goesino looks at an example from a dutch pot music survey. She argues that the dutch top two thousand is a great example of how mediated memories are shaped by personal collective memory. And you can have specific examples that might be worth sharing from your own life and your your own musical history.