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Everything We Do is Music: How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop

Elizabeth Alker

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Tyler Cowen loved it
A very good and readable book on this interaction, with excellent discussions of Donna Summer, Stevie Wonder, La Monte Young, and Penderecki, among many others.

on marginalrevolution.com · 22 Dec 2025

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.