When listening to a piece, they reflect upon their own values and use the music to make connections between their own experiences and what the piece is perceived as communicating.
The sociology of music looks specifically at these connections and the musical experiences tied to the person and the music itself..
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A band is a very small, oftentimes nomadic, group that is based on family ties and is politically independent.
Due to this nomadic lifestyle, meaning moving from place to place, usually in search of food, bands are most often made up of hunter-gatherers..
A band society, sometimes called a camp, or in older usage, a horde, is the simplest form of human society.
A band generally consists of a small kin group, no larger than an extended family or clan..
And many sociologists of music work across disciplines.
Sociologists have also coalesced around the study of different genres, and those contributing in the sociology of particular genres often do so not as sociologists but as music, folklore, or history scholars whose interests have extended to the sociology of music.
The American sociology of music tradition has arguably been influenced more heavily by symbolic interactionism and rational choice theory than the European, where critical theory has been more influential.
Nevertheless, conceptual and methodological interchange is growing, particularly with the increasing influence of Bourdieu in US sociology.
Although unilineal cultural evolution has since been discredited as a model of societal development, band continues to be used in college courses, documentaries, and popular reference works as a sort of technical shorthand denoting a group’s size and degree of social hierarchy.
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Among 19th-century anthropologists, geographers, and explorers, the “band-level society” was designated as the initial stage in models of unilineal cultural evolution and was most often used to describe hunting and gathering cultures.
The term was used in this evolutionary sense until the mid-20th century.
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