MUS 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Stratification, Practice Theory, Post-Structuralism
6 Nov 2017
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Lecture, reading/chapter/novel/article during class, power point, movies (if need to collect info. ) Major sounds happy to us and minor sounds sad: e. g. Aka net hunting coordinating groups: less universal than the others it hasn"t happened through all time takes certain society, e. g. Romani virtuosi vs. state music: communicating beyond words - by performing, listening, becoming part of music, we communicate something about ourselves, communicating with supernatural, self representation in music, e. g. Usually when speaking to god: e. g. Aristotle"s idea of catharsis: if we"re sad we can listen to sadder music, we. Functions of music: physical response, agency an idea of ourselves can perform music to exercise feelings, etc. Structural homology: relationships between music and other social behaviours, there are analogous things happening in music and social behaviours that reflect each other, e. g. Stratified european culture creates the orchestra (there"s level of importance/hierarchical ranking), but egalitarian baaka culture uses polyphonic group singing: e. g.
