SOC 310 Culture, Power and Music
On the surface, music can appear to be a non-consequential element of life and/or an individualized phenomenon. In fact, the production and consumption of music is a social process and thus plays an imperative role in the social world. Music shapes and structures how we interact as groups and individuals, who we are intimately connected to, and reflects and reinforces many of our core social institutions—like religion and politics—as well as meaningful social distinctions — like race, class, and gender.