So, to understand culture versus music (particularly if you take a linguistic perspective, which I don't), we have to go beyond simply distinguishing between cultures. What does being a culture have to do with what you are singing about? How do we apply the concept to music? Is the idea that some words mean certain things different for different cultures? Is a particular song's or a particular songwriter's interpretation of a word or a line considered to be a "culture"? Or do the words themselves have the cultural significance that they claim to?.
Many songs and artists speak of themselves as having a kind of cultural impact when they perform or when they sing. However, in fact, they are all speaking to a cultural audience, not to an individual audience, and they are all speaking for their own specific culture. They all exist within a certain context and they all have a specific point of view.
Thus, music as a form of speech might be considered different from a set of words, and music might be different from culture. In fact, this might have all been part of the reason why the word "music" was invented in the first place!.
As a last note, in the previous discussion, it turned out that there is much overlap between a music's meaning for certain cultures, and a particular piece of music that is performed for that culture. In my own research I've found that both the word "music" and the sound that goes with it are used to describe a particular kind of experience that is experienced by participants in certain situations. Thus, the meaning of the words we use to describe cultures would be very much dependent on what a particular culture is like. In other words, culture is a specific, culturally specific experience that is unique to its people and its history. And I have to say that I think music writers would agree with me here!.
So, to end this post, there's a lot to read into this concept of culture, and I think that there are a lot of interesting questions that can be asked about it. My hope would be that you, the reader, will leave with a better understanding of the subject, and maybe be inspired to take some action. There is great power in what we say and how we say it when we talk about the world around us.
We could start with a word or song that speaks to you. Maybe it's about something that is meaningful to you, and you can put that word or the song in that context. Maybe the song or word describes a feeling that you have that you want to share with the world.
Maybe you want to help a child's music school open, or help promote world peace. It's up to you! The more that you know about culture, the easier it will be to speak and act to change the world around you.
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