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  • Music plays an important role in our daily lives and is woven into the fabric of society. We listen to music while alone or in company, in a dance club or at home, through simple headphones or via high-end speakers, as background or as foreground, after we get up or before we go to bed. Music accompanies us when we are traveling, doing sports, shopping, working or relaxing. This omnipresence of music raises several questions: how does music affect our lives? What is the relation between the society we live in and the role, function, and position of music within that society? How is music influenced by and does music influence social, political, economic, technological, and multiple other developments?
  • Do these questions trigger you? Music and Society provides a thorough introduction to the various ways in which music and society are connected through engaging lectures, insightful interviews, challenging assignments, interesting readings, and of course a lot of musical examples. The course aims at increasing your insights on where, how and why we listen to music, how music contributes to shaping our identity, how music forms, expresses, and subverts political ideas, and how music affects our norms and values.
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Welcome to the Course

Music and society: general introduction

How to succeed in your online class?

Meet the instructors and the team

Leiden University: Facts & Figures

Community Guidelines

What is your learning path?

"A day in the life of a listener"

Reflection on "a day in the life of a listener"

Music between consciousness and subconsciousness: An interview with Anahid Kassabian

Music between consciousness and subconsciousness: An interview with Thomas van Straaten

Reflection on the interviews with Anahid Kassabian and Thomas van Straaten

"Music for Airports": The various roles of music

Music and atmosphere: Concluding discussion

How can music and society be related?

Music and Identity

Music and identity: An introduction

Music and personal identity: the power from outside vs. the freedom from inside

Music and collective identity: One song, many identities

"I will survive": Music between repetition and difference

Music and clashing identities: An interview with Daniel Barenboim

Reflection on the interview with Daniel Barenboim

Does social position affect musical taste? An introduction to Bourdieu

From inequality in society to inequality in music: Bourdieu?s critique

Music and identity: Concluding discussion

Music and personal identity

Deconstructing identity: Mark C. Taylor

Music and identity: Exploring Bourdieu?s views

Music and personal identity

Music and identity: Exploring Bourdieu?s views

Music and Politics

Music and politics: An introduction

From noise regulation to national hymns: Music and the state

Music and culture industry: An introduction to Adorno

Power is everywhere: From ?politics? to ?the political?

Disciplining and controlling: Music and the political

Undermining authority: Music and subversion

The possibility of subversion through music: Adorno revisited

Music, cultural policy, and resistance: An interview with Louis Andriessen

Music and politics: Concluding discussion

Music and politics: The fetish character in music and the regression of listening

Affective tonality? What's that?

How music becomes noise: Jacques Attali

Music and politics: The fetish character in music and the regression of listening

Affective tonality? What's that?

How music becomes noise: Jacques Attali

Music and Ethics

Music and ethics: An introduction

Music and virtue: Good music for the good soul

Music and hospitality: An introduction

Ethical listening and perceptual care

Music and respect: An interview with Ton Koopman

Reflection on the interview with Ton Koopman

Music and ?Bildung?: Character first

Music and engagement: An interview with Nanette Nielsen

Music and ethics: Concluding discussion

Post-Modern Ethics: Beyond Good and Evil

Music and ethics: Freedom, bildung and art

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Post-Modern Ethics: Beyond Good and Evil

Music and Ethics: Freedom, Bildung and Art

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