Streaming services offer music in a kaleidoscopic and planetary abundance that would have seemed wholly fantastical to anyone who lived before the invention of the MP3 file.

They enable quick and promiscuous exploration, exploration without limit. A person in Johannesburg can move from a new track that a friend just WhatsApped moments after she Shazamed it at a club in New York to 1980s’ Italian disco and on to 1970s’ Nigerian funk in three steps that take five minutes. This is wildly marvellous...

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