Description
SOCI 303. SOCIOLOGY OF MUSIC AND CULTURE. Music is a central aspect of culture and a distinctive human activity. As such, it makes for ripe sociological analysis, as relevant as work, worship, or love. This course will consider the social contexts that contribute to the production and performance of music and the ways it contributes to the very production of society. More specifically, we will examine the manifest production and content of music, as well as some of its more latent impacts as a cultural product, reinforcing and destabilizing social order. Finally, we will apply the lessons of this course in an analysis of music’s role in social life by examining its uses by local congregations.? Three hours.