HLTHAGE 4O03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Health Equity, Identity Politics, Cultural Appropriation
5 Nov 2018
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Music in politics, activism, social justice, and health equity. Approaches reviewed here range from macro-scale celebrity diplomacy" and associated mega-events focused at the developing world, to more modest local initiatives and causes. Bull & scharff mcdonald"s music : assumed a natural association between middle-class culture and musician status (as evidenced by a middle-class domination at conservatories), value judgements either used a standard of classical music against which to measure other genres. In this study, urban genres were described as illegible, thus placed lower on the. Leung & kier: correlation between preference for certain music genres (classical, opera, musicals, new age, easy listening, house, world music, heavy metal, punk, and ska) and engagement in activism, regardless of ideological position. In the discussion, links are made to consumer culture and musical genres. For example, hip hop, which grew away from its political origins, only to resurface a few years ago.
