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Cultural Diversity on Music

Cultural Diversity in Music and its positive and negative effects on Society

Cultural diversity

American music is a melting pot of various genres of music . From the times when the country was colonized American music has come a long way Rock and Roll , Hip-hop , Rhythm and Blues , Jazz and Country are among the internationally renowned genres . The more indigenous genres include Gospel , Louisiana tejoles , and Hawaiian music and American Folk music Music intertwines with various aspects of American identity such as race , ethnicity , gender and social class . Of these race is

perhaps the biggest driver of any particular genre of music . Hip-hop , jazz , soul and R B have long been considered as an African -American tradition as has the country music genre been the tradition of whites in America . The mixing of cultures from has permeated popular culture in an unprecedented fashion . Because of its crossover appeal , music is a great unifier of diverse populations . It has gone from the fringes , to the suburbs , and into the corporate boardrooms . Over the last forty or fifty years music has been one of the biggest influential factors in teenage society . So , there 's no problem in assuming that our present adult society is built with some of the ideas taken from the music industry of the yesteryears

Positive Effects

Music in America has and continues to play a very positive role in the society . The emergence of folk music during the 20th century , and particularly the rise of popular folk music of the 1960 's , is probably the best example of music affecting society . The Civil Rights Movement was in full swing and the largely unpopular war in Vietnam was well underway

Folk music is , inherently , music played and sung by and for everyday people - music for the masses , so to speak . Naturally , when a culture becomes aware of radical changes that awareness gives way through expression . Folk singer and songwriter Woody Guthrie began writing protest music ' and songs in support of popular movements of the day Other folk singers such as Bob Dylan and Joan Baez followed suit . For the first time , music was not only a vehicle for expression , but it was also a way to mobilize and inspire listeners to think differently and take action

Country music typically embodied idealistic thinking , shunning capitalism and material comforts . It is about everyday people doing everyday things-the bars they go to , the people they have lost , their dreams , their loves , and their friends . Country gives people something to relate to besides urban hip-hop , rap , heavy metal , and pop . As far as society as a whole , for the most part country singers are considered fairly wholesome-they aren 't in the tabloids for drugs and explicitly wanton behavior (not saying they don 't they are all perfect ) but their images tend to be cleaner than musicians belonging to other genres so it gives the younger generations people to look up to

Both Hip-Hop and R B have impacted society in many ways , mainly well...

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