In my writings on music, I have sometimes compared the dissemination of a new performance style to the spread of a disease. This isn't just a fancy metaphor. The mathematical models used to study the diffusion of innovations come from medical science, and were originally developed to predict the spread of epidemics. (Check out the work of Everett Rogers…
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