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If you think music hall ‘art’ is easy, just you read some of the songs and decide for yourselves whether they do not require an extraordinary amount of inventive elaboration … to make them effective.
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The speaker challenges the idea that music hall art is easy. They suggest that reading the songs closely reveals how much inventive elaboration is needed to make them effective. The point is that apparent simplicity can conceal considerable skill and creative work.
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