SOC317H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: A Tribe Called Red, Protest Song, Subculture
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Subcultures, racism and cultural appropriation: music is not a biological necessity but it is culturally ubiquitous, exists all around us and is played in multiple global cultures. Protest songs are a form of cultural expression that responds to material conditions of marginalization and oppression, such as a racist system of policing. They are also a way that members of oppressed groups have historically exercised agency through a collective critique of structural inequalities. Institutional racism refers to systems of racial advantage and disadvantage that are maintained through social institutions like education and the criminal justice system ex. Institutions maintain the appearance of fairness however, according to research: 1) black boys are disciplined more than any other group (suspended. Iggy azalea, a middle-class white australian who raps with a southern. Azalea"s music includes controversial lyrics that allude to histories of oppression that appear disconnected from her own social location.
