Question: With specific reference to your fieldwork project, discuss the ways in which people express and negotiate aspects of cultural identity through music.
Answer: According to Kay Kaufman Shelemay the aspects of cultural identity in terms of music,
“Music embodies diverse identities, including nationality, region, ethnicity, race, class, religion, and gender.” (1)
Music is a very powerful medium and in some societies there have been some attempts to control its use. It is powerful at the level of the social group because it functions to facilitate communication, which goes beyond words, enables meanings to be shared and promotes the development and maintenance of individual, group, cultural and national identities....(short extract)
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- Subject: Music
- Course: Music
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: 68%
- Words: 2100
- Date submitted: December 01, 2008
- Date written: Not available
- References: No
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 2485
