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Sunday, January 20, 2013

By Glenda Lally


An extremely tragic facet of contemporary life is the decrease of music as a preferred art form. We are not stating that there is an absence of music. There is certainly lots of lots of music in all of its lots of kinds, whether it be classical, nation or rock.

We are not referring to the pop music that crowds our airwaves and information media. Nor is there any absence of more traditional people music which largely mirrors past times, peoples or ethic identities.

What is missing out on is that kind of music that emerged from the work and society of the people and makes songs a spontaneous and meaningful part of our lives.

Today, music has come to be a passive pursuit executed by artists and used myriad electronic gadgets. It works as enjoyment, stimulation or satisfaction and has little to do with time or spot.

We are used to mass-marketed songs that has little connection with personal lives. Indeed, many would be hard pressed to call a popular regional song or artist.

Aside from a couple of patriotic tunes or religious hymns, a lot of individuals share no common musical ancestry or take part in singing on a regular basis.

And yet, songs used to be incorporated into life and work. Before modern life altered our work rhythms and speed the speed of life, individuals sang all the time.

Everybody had their songs. Weavers, ranch workers, travelers as well as beggars had their music with which they told their tales and conveyed lessons.

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

Old individuals remember that 'as quickly as we were 2 on the roadway, we began to sing'" (Eugen Weber, Peasant Into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France 1870-1914, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1976, p. 429).

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

We might additionally add that tune also corresponding to the flux of human feelings so that they might express sadness and delight, disaster and event. Tune was integrated into people's lives serving to motivate, instruct and unite.




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