Why is traditional music important to your culture?

Answer 1

Traditional music is contemporary to keep the heritage of that area alive. Most of the festivals and ceremonies of my country are connected to the traditions of our ancestors that is the reason of its high demand by the dwellers. Moreover people value it to pilgrimage the inventors of these traditional music and intrigued to keep them alive for ever.

Answer 2

I would say my friend that traditional and comtemporary music are both equally important. Whatever makes you feel good inside is whats important. My second point is that, tradition is important but, never just dwell in the past. This new music comes from the traditional aspects. I would say that both are equal. Hope this helps.

Answer 3

All music is important; making music is one of the basic instincts and needs of humans, both singly and collectively.

Traditional music will always be maintained and promoted as long as people remain aware of it and enjoy it, just as people will continue to invent and enjoy new forms of music, some of which will one day become part of our musical traditions. This is true of all human cultural pursuits: food, clothing, storytelling and other forms of learning and literature, and so on, all their traditions are lovingly and joyfully maintained by those who wish to do so.

All traditional music was once modern. Music composed last week is no less worthwhile because it was composed last week; if it's rubbish we won't bother with it for long. Music composed last century, or many centuries ago, was either discarded as rubbish, never to be heard again, or has survived to this day.

Some of our most popular music today was, when first produced, considered worthless. Just look at, for example, reviews of music by Mozart, Beethoven, and other now-revered classical, medieval, and relatively modern composers.

The marvellous tenor Mario Lanza, was decried by many critics as a mere lightweight, what we'd today call a trashy popstar with delusions of being a serious singer. The critics are dead now, but Lanza's music lives on.

Austrian-American Fritz Kriesler wasn't always favourite with the critics, either, but they loved a number of his violin pieces which he attributed to famous, long-dead composers. Critics were enraged when, in the 1930s, Kriesler admitted to being the composer. A matter of image, rather than true perception was at work there, as Kriesler expected.

These things never change. Once thought of as scruffy talentless slum kids, The Beatles' music has been performed by practically everyone who can sing or play a musical instrument, while during the same, ongoing, time-period, classical musicians have been told off by experts for 'wasting' their talents on music despised by some as mere popular rubbish.

Great composers and performers have always day used or incorporated traditional music in their work. Traditional Musical Instruments have throughout history migrated between countries and cultures: just look at the Irish bouzouki, introduced into Ireland from Greece in the 1960s, adapted to suit the local styles, and now played by Irish bands worldwide. Some Irish musicians even still use the original Greek-style instrument...

Music is music; it's free and will remain so for as long as humans exist. Rhythm existed long before us and will exist when we're all gone. The best efforts of some to split music into different shapes and styles and confine them there, into narrow little musical pigeonholes, are doomed to failure, because the people will sing and play whatever they like.

One might as well believe the food experts who try to tell us what's 'authentic'. It's nonsense, and it doesn't make good food better or bad food worse.

From the time a family of the first humans wandered into a forest and discovered a whole unsuspected other family of humans, we've been exchanging food, music and other ideas with one another, and we'll continue to do so as long as we live.

Leave the fine points, labels and pigeonholes to those who've a thesis to write; meanwhile, enjoy music for the wondrous free gift it is and don't worry whether it's labelled 'traditional', 'international', or just plain 'noise'. It doesn't matter. And it is very far from the truth to suggest that something is more worthwhile because fewer people enjoy it; that it becomes somehow devalued when a lot of people like it. Of course a lot more people today enjoy music, of all types! This is because (a) there are a lot more people alive today than ever before, and (b) people have the opportunity, unprecedented in all our history, of sharing music among ourselves.

Answer 4

Folk Music will remain popular in its own culture forever.

Classical Music is valued because of its complex design composed by single individuals with unique minds who were capable of creating it without technology.

I assume that "Traditional music" means something similar to one of those.

It is like those famous mathematicians from Pythagoras to Newton and Einstein who also had no computers besides their own brains.

Almost everyone can sample, and many people can hack together a song with some lyrics and a midi synthesizer and a computer, even if they can't play an instrument or even sing. I think very few songs from today will be remembered as special when the famous old songs are forgotten. Which song from 2000 do you think will still be played a lot just fifty years in the future? Some music is hundreds of years old and still heard today.

Answer 5

It is an important part of virtually every culture, and is very often the inspiration for other cultural musics as they develop throughout history. Music is a part of how cultures celebrate, play, worship, grieve, experience peace and make war.

Answer 6

Traditional music provides ties to culture creating connections to the basis of a society. This also creates a base for other traditions to build upon.

Answer 7

If used correctly, yes music can be an important aspect to culture. Music is used to express ideas, teach, and reflects the goals and beliefs of a community.

Answer 8

No. Rap and hip hop is better.

Answer 9

because it is a beautiful exam