SOCIOL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Knitting
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Approaching music as merely an object or an activity treating it as a set part and self-contained rather than as part of and inseparable form, social life . Cultural objects point to something beyond itself an can represent social life. Culture provides the context for understanding objects, like music an art. Big c influence the little c"s that we make up of our culture. Picasso art: the viewer looks back and interprets symbols. Successful works of art enhance, destroy or transform common assumptions, perceptions, and categories, yielding new perspectives and changed insights (edelman) Cultural objects can bring a group together. Cultural objects can transmit a political message through framing. Example: music can fortify a movement by solidifying social relationships. The songs may not have commercial success, but their true value lied in their social use (civil rights movement) Meaning is never purely in the music - roy and dowd. Music can present a collective view of a situation.
