Answer the following about sociological interpretations of the role of music in society, for 10 points each.
[10e] Sociomusicology deviates from a related field with this prefix since it puts less emphasis on national identity. This prefix partly names a method of describing cultural practices while submerged in a group.
ANSWER: ethno- [or ethnography; or ethnomusicology]
[10m] This sociologist outlined the social meanings of music in his Psychological and Ethnological Studies on Music. This sociologist discussed a “blasé outlook” on urban life in his essay “The Metropolis and Mental Life.”
ANSWER: Georg Simmel (“GAY-org ZIM-ull”)
[10h] In his essay “Philosophy of Modern Music,” this thinker remarked that popular music is “regarded as the absolute criterion of social truth.” This thinker outlined “structural listening” in “On the Fetish-Character in Music and Regression in Listening.”
ANSWER: Theodor Adorno [or Theodor W. Adorno; or Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund]
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