Rivers and Mountains, Robert Reese, Parabola. Sent by Cupid. Music is more primal, more specific than the day to day. Music is not about what happens to people but more about their states of mind and heart when it is happening. Standards of conduct change.
Characters ride horses or drive trucks.
But I suspect that the visceral rushes of pain and pleasure stay pretty much the same, as constituent parts of an emotional DNA that survives in a straight line from Adam and Eve to Elvis Presley. Negotiating Between Old and New, Bernard Holland, NY times, 14th May 00. Transmitted orally for centuries before being written down, the sagas feature a full cast of kings, queens, champion fighters, druids, seers and musicians. Harp strings of brass, silver and iron produced each of these hypnotic states. A pocket history of Irish Traditional Music, Gearoid O hAllmhurain.