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“But what makes music perhaps uniquely effective as ideology is what might be called its double nature. On the one hand it is, obviously, a human artefact, something that people make and that calls on a range of culture specific social practices and technologies. But at the same time we experience music as if it were a natural language that we know without ever having learned it, and this ability to naturalise is a key source of music’s power to persuade.”