Culture And Cultural Identity In Music And Culture

Since the early time of human civilization, each and every ethnics that exist in this world, majority of them have come to express their culture identity through the form of music. For instance, during the ancient time of human life, societies used music as a way to gather people around the community in order to express their beliefs in terms of myths and history, ethnical background as well as cultural believes that has been foretold throughout generations within their communities.

“ In some societies music serves as an important accompaniment to ritual and may have little other function. In such cultures, music is performed only when certain ceremonies are performed” ~ ( Garfias, R. (2016) ‘Music: The cultural context’, .)

Why has this remain important in each ethnic community to or have the need to preserve their identity through music up until this new millennium? Well, music as we know it is has been

Although we are not a historian by profession, we as a musicians are generally capable of identifying and making an assumption of what was going on or messages that a music it is trying to relate to the people of those days just by listening to it. This is due to the exposure that was given to us during our learning experience in music class. Nonetheless, an ordinary person without any musical knowledge are able identity what sort of music influence comes especially if they socialized with other ethnicity in their communities. On top of that, identifying a music cultural influence has been easier over the years as we are more exposed and resourceful as we have the necessary tools such as computer and the