1. The Music-Culture as a World of Music
MUSI 3721Y
University of Lethbridge, Calgary Campus
John Anderson

2. The Music-Culture Music is universal but its meaning is not
By culture we mean the whole way of life of a people, learned and transmitted from one generation to the next
We use the term music-culture to refer to a group of people’s total involvement with music
Not all music-cultures have a word for “music”

3. A Music-Culture Model A model rooted in music through performance
Performers
Audience
Time and space
Music’s affect is its emotional impact, whatever makes you assent, smile, grimace, nod, sway or dance
Performance has agreed-on rules and procedures
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4. A Music-Culture Model
Community is the group that carries the traditions and norms of performance
Time and space becomes memory and history in our music-culture model
Musical analysis is finding patterns in the sound by breaking the music into parts and determining how the parts function in the whole
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5. Components of a Music-Culture
Music and the Belief System
Aesthetics of Music
Contexts for Music
History of Music
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6. Social Organization of Music
Social organization refers to how a group of people divides, arranges, or ranks itself
Sometimes resembles social divisions within the group
Sometimes goes against the broad cultural grain
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7. Repertories of Music Style Genres Texts
Scale, mode, melody, harmony, rhythm, timbre, dynamics
Genres
Vocal vs. instrumental?
Texts
The words to a song
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8. Repertories of Music Composition Transmission Movement
How does music enter the repertory?
Transmission
How is music learned?
Movement
A whole range of physical activity accompanies music
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9. Material Culture of Music
Material culture refers to the tangible, physical objects that a culture produces
The most obvious example are musical instruments
Sheet music is material culture too
Electronic media?
Radio, compact discs, MP3s, television?
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10. Worlds of Music Music cultures are dynamic, not static
Constantly changing to outside pressures
It changes to suit the expressive and emotional desires of humankind
Synergy vs. hegemony
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11. Discussion Questions What is music? How can music affect culture?
How can culture affect music?
How is music considered as a behaviour?
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12. Discussion Questions
How can we better understand different music when we compare them to languages?
Sincere there are many similarities in musical instruments throughout the world, could there have been patterns of cultural diffusion?
How might they have operated?
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