Critical
Insight:
What is music? The answer from Wiki is that “Music is an
art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time”. For
the computer, the answer is coding. In philosophy, music is a language. In physics,
music is one kind of sound which is logically produced by shaking. The general answer
from common people is the sound that is composed by rhythm and melody. Actually,
it has too many different answers for this question, such as a form of the
poet, an art, a thing for relaxing, and “Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La Si.”
I think that everyone has their own answer. For me, broadly,
music is one of the human cultural products. To be abstract, music is a power.
As “Blues SchoolHouse Timeline Overview” says, the Blues, which is one kind of
music, is a method of communication for African Americans. In this case, music
is a power to build the community for African Americans. For another reading, “Same
Old Song”, it mentions that music can lead people to a wrong value and fight against
political correctness. This example shows that music is a power that can influence
people’s thoughts. Music is also a power that can stimulate people’s emotion
and imagination. When people listen to the fast pace song, they may feel happy
and get energy, and when people enjoy the quiet song, they may feel sad and begin
to sigh their lives. Obviously, music has become a positive and negative power
that can affect people’s lives.
In fact, I do not admit that the vacuous “music” is
music. Music should not need to be noble and positive, but music must not be
vulgar. A song, Meet the Flockers, by YG caught people’s attention because its
lyric is to appeal for robbing Chinese. Also, quite a lot of rap music lyrics have
dirty words, such as “Fuck”, “Bitch”, and “Shit”. I think that they can express
whatever they want to express. However, for them, the music is just a tool or a
form, and they do not really think that the music is an artwork. I consider
that not all the sound can be thought as the music.
Everyone should have their specific definition of music,
so everyone has their own understanding of music. However, people need to admit
that music has become a culture, which connects people together, and a power,
which influences people every day.
Aha:
I like listening to music, but I was not
care about the genre. Therefore, when I knew the genre of music, I suddenly found
out that why the rhythm and melody of some songs were very similar. Also,
music, as the other types of culture, has changed and evolved from the past to
the present. It was just like the Blues which extended to many other genres,
and they even mix together in one song.
Bumper
Sticker:
Music must never offend the ear, but must
please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music. –
Mozart
I
didn’t know that:
Actually,
even though I know a little bit of the genre of music, I still cannot correctly
distinguish the genre of the music that I listen. However, I think that
sometime it is unnecessary to understand the genre. Just to enjoy the gifts
that music provide is enough.
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