What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Music? Reports on a Listening Workshop

Abstract

This collective paper is a report of an “MP3 Workshop” experience held in the classroom during the first semester of 2018 in the Sociology of Music graduate course taught by Professor Jorge de La Barre (PPGS-UFF). The idea was for each student to bring and present to the class a song of their choice. The diversity of musical choices, suggested by the students’ reports, has been organized according to two thematic lines usually explored in music sociology: music and representation, and music and meaning.