1/22/2013

Is Music As An Art Form Declining?

By Walter Calton


An extremely awful aspect of modern life is the decline of music as a preferred art form. We are not stating that there is an absence of songs. There is definitely lots of plenty of songs in all of its lots of types, whether it be classical, nation or rock.

We are not referring to the pop music that crowds our airwaves and mass media. Nor exists any lack of more conventional folk music which mostly mirrors past times, individuals or ethic identifications.

Exactly what is missing out on is that type of music that emerged from the work and society of individuals and makes songs a spontaneous and meaningful part of our lives.

Today, songs has become a passive pursuit executed by artists and played on myriad electronic gadgets. It functions as home entertainment, stimulation or satisfaction and has little to do with time or place.

We are used to mass-marketed songs that has little hookup with individual lives. Indeed, many would be hard pressed to call a popular neighborhood tune or artist.

Aside from a few patriotic songs or spiritual hymns, the majority of individuals share no typical musical heritage or take part in singing regularly.

But, music made use of to be incorporated into life and work. Before contemporary life changed our work rhythms and accelerate the speed of life, individuals sang all the time.

Everybody had their tunes. Weavers, farm employees, tourists as well as beggars had their songs with which they informed their tales and conveyed lessons.

In explaining the function of music in nineteenth century France, chronicler Eugen Weber informs of how "sung discussions engaged farmers or shepherds miles apart. Wives acknowledged their men returning home at eventide by their track.

Old people bear in mind that 'as soon as we were 2 on the road, we started to sing'" (Eugen Weber, Peasant Into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France 1870-1914, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1976, p. 429).

Weber notes exactly how track was commonly functional since it set the speed for work. There were harvest tracks, walking tracks and working songs that all corresponded to the natural rhythms set by the human heart and lungs.

We may also include that track also corresponding to the flux of human emotions so that they may show sorrow and delight, tragedy and party. Song was incorporated into people's lives serving to urge, teach and unify.




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