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 In "Towards an Aesthetic of Popular Music" Simon Frith (1987) argues that popular music has 4 social functions that account for its value and popularity in society. Popular music:
 * 1) allows us to answer questions about our own identity and place in society
 * 2) help us manage the relationship between our public and private emotional lives
 * 3) help us organize our sense of time and shapes popular memory
 * 4) is something that is possessed