What Is Sociological about Music? by William G. Roy and music is sociological in at least five ways. it is a commodity, oR a cultuRal object; it is an activity that oRganizes social inteRaction; it contains and tRansmits cultuRal meanings; it expResses the identity of the listeneRs; and lastly, the venues, genRes, and instRumentation of music Reveal foRms of social stRatification, such as gendeR and Race

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What Is Sociological about Music? by William G. Roy and music is sociological in at least five ways. it is a commodity, oR a cultuRal object; it is an activity that oRganizes social inteRaction; it contains and tRansmits cultuRal meanings; it expResses the identity of the listeneRs; and lastly, the venues, genRes, and instRumentation of music Reveal foRms of social stRatification, such as gendeR and Race

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Music is not a singular phenomenon and, hence, is not captured by one definition. . . . Following musicologist Phillip Bohlman (1999), we bring . . . construction to the fore by discussing how music can be conceptualized as both object and activity. . . .