Music and Diversity

By: Andrew Sakach

Outside Source: 4

In my Sacred Communications class we had a guest speaker come in and she told us about the differences in music between some societies. It was extremely interesting to find out why the music was different and in most cases it was because it reflected the values within that cultural mindset. Gregorian chanting was very monochromatic and singularity was stressed while other music from, I believe Bulgaria was multi-chromatic and stressed the ability of women to be able to work together and displayed their ability to work as a group to become strong. The differences in culture that you can tell, just by listening and analyzing their music is awesome to me. In anthropology I never really thought of looking at that aspect of culture in order to further appreciate individual cultures' uniquenesses and differences.