Professor Carolyn Ramzy

Music and Culture

Students will learn about the field of ethnomusicology, a related discipline to anthropology that studies music as culture. How does our favourite music help make us who we are? How does it shape the ways we listen to the world and the people in it? This lecture takes the power of popular music seriously, asking questions about how the likes of Rihanna, Taylor Swift, and Beyoncé shape our views on gender, globalization, and inequality in a world that often tunes into star power to shape our tastes, our political views, and even our actions.