SOCI 337 - Music and Society

3 Credit(s)

The purpose of this course is to provide students with insight into the various functions popular music has in constructing, influencing, and maintaining human life. As a form of secondary socialization, media presentations of popular music from the Big Band era to the present will be examined through the lenses of the theoretical perspective of Symbolic Interactionism. An historical retracing of the rise of popular music will be provided as grounding for examinations of current styles. As warranted.