Question

What is culture& music

Answer 1

  Music has long been an expression of people from different cultures around the world. The oldest artifacts that show people playing musical instruments are found in Asia and are around four thousand years old. Other archaeological findings suggest that different cultures around the world have always focused on their ownspecial instruments and unique methods of playing them. However, no matter how much music may have differed in different parts of the world, it seems that music served a general common purpose: to bring people together. 

The emergence of folk music during the 20th century, and particularly the rise of popular folk music of the 1960’s, is probably the best example of music affecting society. The Civil Rights Movement was in full swing and the largely unpopular war in Vietnam was well underway. 

Folk music is, inherently, music played and sung by and for everyday people—music for the masses, so to speak. Naturally, when a culture becomes aware of radical changes that awareness gives way through expression. Folk singer and songwriter Woody Guthrie began writing “protest music” and songs in support of popular movements of the day. Other folk singers such as Bob Dylan and Joan Baez followed suit. 

For the first time, music was avehicle for expression and it was also a way to mobilize and inspire listeners to think differently and take action. The music typically embodied idealistic thinking, shunning capitalism and material comforts. People in the US, particularly the youth, had showed a variety of favorable responses to this genre of music. Shifting from the sterile, clean-cut popular image of the 1950’s, there was a general trend toward freedom, individuality and expression. Generally speaking, ethnic, natural fabrics and hand woven or embroidered clothes became popular; the youth became more open about their experimentation with drugs and sex; there was an overall rejection of power structures and authority. American society was changed drastically and in a lasting way