Plato had similar ideas about music's relationship with society:
The overseers must be watchful against its insensible corruption. They must throughout be watchful against innovations in music and gymnastics counter to the established order, and to the best of their power guard against them, fearing when anyone says that that song is most regarded among men “which hovers newest on the singer’s lips”, lest it be supposed that the poet means not new songs but a new way of song and is commending this. But we must not praise that sort of thing nor conceive it to be the poet’s meaning. For a change to a new type of music is something to beware of as a hazard of all our fortunes. For the modes of music are never disturbed without unsettling of the most fundamental political and social conventions.
I don't believe we live in a time when music could have such profound effects on society; in less "civilised" lands it is possible to conceive of music produced by people for their village or tribe, or indeed by a village or tribe as a whole for themselves, and this music forms an important part of regular life there, but in the First World we essentially have two kinds of music: the mainstream and the specialised. The former of these is a commodity, any impact it has on anyone is more often than not due to images or ideas that are associated with it in marketing and the environment in which it is presented (e.g.: a club, in which the music functions as sonic wallpaper) rather than the music itself which is essentially stagnant, recycling itself near constantly; the latter avoids commodification by being "about itself", it is not designed with a purpose outside itself and is almost entirely divorced from the extramusical things which the former relies on to appeal to consumers. Milton Babbitt's article
The Composer as Specialist (originally published against his wishes under the title
Who Cares If You Listen?) is an interesting and controversial text on the subject of this "specialised music" and its purpose, or lack thereof.
tl;dr: Music is irrelevant to society because it is inherently meaningless, it can be augmented with things outside itself: words, images, functions, fashions, ideologies, activities etc. but can never escape its fundamentally abstract nature.