Changes in demand for music often reflect changes in the music itself. The demand for country music changed as country adopted a rock beat and new superstars emerged. Change also occurs with societal change and with pop trends. Return to introduction. Your Own Culture People demand music for entertainment and for affirmation of cultural values.
Music can divert people from the boring tasks at hand.
Listening to a song while mowing grass or cleaning a room makes those jobs easier to finish. But music also plays an important social role, fostering rebellion, blending forms to make new cultural statements, and solidifying cultural styles through commercialization. It contributes to ceremonies and rituals that define social groups.