Culture and Music are co-related. In fact in my opinion they are two sides of a coin that cannot be divided from each other. Culture is way of living, traditional heritage and comprises of custom and behavior of people. Music, a fundamental activity of humankind, has been, and continues to be, important to all people around the world. The ideas and feelings that music reveals to its audience is culture specific. Being a means of communication it involves sounds created by community members that are understandable by other community members. Furthermore, it is part of a group’s cultural identity, which reflects their past activities and separates from adjoining people. In addition, Music is rooted in the cultural society in the same ways as food, dress and language.
There might be a wide variety of musical traditions as well as culture due to virtue of music. Both culture and music is part of every day life people living in a society. Music is voice of people for various activities, feasts and festivals as well. There is music for agricultural labor, for building houses, for funerals, and for marketing cattle, sheep and goats. National anthems describing bravery of people and pride of country are also included as well. There are also numerous traditional dances and traditional dance songs. The earth, the seasons, love, bravery, harvest time, pride, family, children, beauty, and the stars are the subjects included in music. We believe that musical knowledge may contribute to cultural awareness and help to create cross-cultural understanding. Furthermore, music helps to transfer culture from one generation to next.
Then, perhaps, we can be in a better position to help not about the survival of music but about the survival of cultural groups. With these music cultural surveys we wish to share our ideas about world cultural diversity, beauty, value, and survival through music. People participate by playing and singing together rather than watching others perform. It includes the sentiments of individual people of each caste holding people from various castes together in a society. Music is not static, it changes constantly as people and their circumstances change. People migrating from one location to other carry their culture as well. No doubt, there they share the culture with the help of music. As people move and share their music with other people, musical styles alter. Prior culture may be synchronized with that of the new location. Religion of particular location may also contribute for making music dynamic. As a result, variety of cultures influences in creation of different types of cultural music.
However, music helps to demonstrate as well as to conserve tradition and culture. It is noteworthy that a massive movement being created as an alternative leisure activity for youths besides discos and music clubs. Furthermore, being ‘in the culture’ means to walk one step ahead of fashion. It assists to focus and organize thoughts, and it supports to eliminate negative mental habits. While at the same time reconstructing its cultural identity, necessary for group integration. Musical innovations are very essential in the formation of musical cultural strategies. However, music has been one of the primary and foremost activities to bring people together, and has been significant because of its capability to transmit on a tradition while setting itself in opposition to the main culture through its obviously different and unique music.
– Luckysurya
