1. Popular Music and Contemporary U.S. Culture
... and in-depth interviewing; or a combination of the two. Through survey research, tastes in popular music are understood as being shaped by a person's gender, age, social class background, and race/ethnicity. To a certain extent, sociological approaches to studying popular music stem from cultural studies, an offshoot of sociology developed primarily in the 1970's at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS ... of the late 1970s were understood as representative of this view. The consumption of popular music was recognized as being symbolic of a person's social class background...
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- Grade Level: Graduate