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Understanding Folk and Ethnic Music: Cultural Significance and Unique Characteristics

This chapter explores the essence of folk and ethnic music, highlighting its roots in the common people of various regions and its identification with specific cultural groups. It emphasizes the importance of understanding these music forms as they reflect cultural attitudes and values. Unlike concert music, folk and ethnic music lack uniformity and are often created collaboratively, with an expectation of improvisation. It showcases how music serves as a cultural product, illustrating the significant distinctions that set folk and ethnic music apart from more conventional forms.

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Understanding Folk and Ethnic Music: Cultural Significance and Unique Characteristics

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  1. Chapter 40 Folk and Ethnic Music Begins on page 370

  2. Folk Music and Ethnic Music • The music of the common people of a region or nation • Music identified with a particular group of people or region, but not of the common people • Therefore, all folk music is ethnic music, but not all ethnic music is folk music

  3. Why learn about folk/ethnic music? 1. Elements of it are often found in concert music

  4. Why learn about folk/ethnic music? 2. It reveals the attitudes and values of a culture

  5. Why learn about folk/ethnic music? 3. Today we are encountering other cultures more and more

  6. How does folk/ethnic music differ from concert music? • Lacks uniformity • Differs according to area or even individual

  7. How does folk/ethnic music differ from concert music? • Creator of a piece is almost never known – and no one really cares who created it

  8. How does folk/ethnic music differ from concert music? • Individual performers feel free, or are expected, to make changes • Performer is very important as co-creator of the music

  9. How does folk/ethnic music differ from concert music? • Performers are often expected to improvise some or much of the music

  10. How does folk/ethnic music differ from concert music? • Little distinction between performers and audience

  11. How does folk/ethnic music differ from concert music? • Often contains subtleties that can easily be missed by persons not familiar with the particular type of music

  12. How does folk/ethnic music differ from concert music? • Often passed from one person to another by oral tradition • Almost never preserved in notation

  13. Music and culture • All music is a product of the culture in which it is found • The difference between art and folk/ethnic music lies in the importance of the cultural factors • They are much more important in folk/ethnic music • They are much less important in art music

  14. Summary • Folk music • Ethnic music • Why learn about folk/ethnic music? • How does folk/ethnic music differ from concert music? • Music and culture

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