What does music say about a culture? Also Big Rock Candy Mountain

What does music say about a culture?

I think about the song Big Rock Candy Mountain, and what it reveals between the lines about the time and place it was written.

The Depression, the Dust Bowl, Forclosures, hoboes and handouts…
So this thread was supposed to be this philosophical discussion about music as a reflection of culture across history but then I got distracted and wrote this dumb parody about our culture to the tune of


To the tune of “Big Rock Candy Mountain.
Big Woke Karen Shoutin’


One evening as the sun went down,
And the Soccer Moms were blogging,
Down the sidewalk came a Karen,
In her Yoga pants while Jogging,

She wore 2 masks with strugglin’ breaths,
saw workin baws not wearin,
Some worthless cloth, so she went off,
That Big Woke Shoutin’ Karen,

That Big Woke Karen Shoutin’
Said she’d call the police,
She tweets “All Cops Are Bastards”
But needs them for hurt fee fees

And she wants papers presented,
For proof of a vaccine,
And demands that you,
Act like she wants to,

Just a hypocrite,
So who gives a shite,
About Big Woke Karen Shoutin’

Then the Big Woke Karen Shoutin’
Pulls out her new smartphone,
And starts to stream, on the WiFi beams,
Mega corporations own,

Her Prius sticker’s “COEXIST”,
But she can’t tolerate,
Any other views,
And she tries to use,

Cancel Culture,
To harm and abuse,
That Big Woke Karen Shoutin’

That Big Woke Karen Shoutin’
She slurps up CNN,
Then without any questions,
Clucks it out like a hen,

She can’t abide folks asking,
When the facts just don’t add up,
If you don’t obey,
What the pundits say,
You’re a sexist, racist,
KKK,
To the Big Woke Karen Shoutin’


But the Big Woke Karen Shoutin’
Says “Not In My Backyard”,
But then she wants more policies,
That make other’s lives hard,

There seems to be no limit,
To her inane demands,
It’s rules for thee,
But not for me,
Just absolute,
hypocrisy,
For the Big Woke Karen Shoutin’

And I for one, Have Had enough,
Of the Big Woke Karen Shoutin’




Yeah, I know, TL;DR.

Anyway, any other good examples of how history of a culture can be viewed through its music?