I’m puzzling over this comma at the beginning of the quote below. Is it another way to make it clear that the author is speaking about two different people - SOME musician and SOME OTHER artist? Doesn’t the repetition of ‘another’ already serve it perfectly? Or am I getting this part totally wrong?
To quote another musician, and another artist inspired by Starkweather, Bruce Springsteen concluded his 1982 record Nebraska with the song “Reason to Believe.”
Commas are a marker of intonation, not syntax, as Lawler has noted here. The comma rules are just heuristics for determining where native speakers typically divide speech into intonation units.
In this case, most speakers would adopt the change in tone after "another musician," in order to indicate that "and another artist inspired by Starkweather" is a parenthetical remark. This is important because it clarifies that this remark is giving additional information about the same musician, not introducing a new one.
To quote another musician, and another artist inspired by Starkweather, Bruce Springsteen concluded his 1982 record Nebraska with the song “Reason to Believe.”
This musician is the same one i.e. "another artist inspired..."
If the musician and the artist were two different people, this sentence would have been used.
To quote another musician, and one other artist inspired by Starkweather, Bruce Springsteen concluded his 1982 record Nebraska with the song “Reason to Believe.”
