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All right, great, but at the same time, Allen could be said to "claim" the music on his soundtracks as a kind of cultural property. In a way, he restamps it with a certain authenticity of place and context as well as time, as something that might even rightfully "belong" to his kind of folks: a certain generation and class of intellectual New Yorkers.Love the use of the Art Tatum-Ben Webster sides, the mentioning of Sam Waterston character's father having been blacklisted during the McCarthy era, and the fact that music and foreign films figure in these people's lives, like most people who populate Allen's films.
Whether it actually is most relevant to a certain generation and class of intellectual New Yorkers could be argued, but there is some body of critical analysis that says it's great enough to belong to the ages. (Then again, if the critics mostly come from that generation of New Yorkers, there's a real question...)