16.2 Anthropology of Music

By the end of this section, you will be able to:

  • Define ethnomusicology.
  • Describe evidence of musical instruments in prehistory.
  • Articulate the importance of sociocultural context to the understanding of music.
  • Describe how music can form the basis of subculture and community.
  • Evaluate the potential of music to impact processes of social change.
  • Describe how cultural appropriation of music is related to social inequality and power.
This lesson has no exercises.

The content of this course has been taken from the free Anthropology textbook by Openstax