![]() ![]() Sociologists of music have accordingly been concerned with the importance of musical taste for signifying status and distinguishing cultural hierarchies. ![]() In the landmark Distinction, Bourdieu argued, “nothing more clearly affirms ones ‘class,’ nothing more infallibly classifies, than tastes in music” ( Distinction: A social critique of the judgement of taste, p. ![]() The study of music has also concerned scholars in adjacent disciplines, particularly musicology, cultural studies, and economics. The study of music in society has been of interest to canonic social thinkers, including Weber, Simmel, and Adorno, since the establishment of sociology. Music is central to cultural life and therefore also often perceived as central to social life. ![]()
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