Music Is An Ineffective Tool For Communication Across Cultures
By: Chia Ching Mei (Mayy) “Music is an ineffective tool for communication across cultures.”
What is culture? Culture is defined as the characteristics of a particular group of people, defined by everything from language, religion, cuisine, social habits, inventions, traditions, technology, beliefs, music and arts (Kim Ann). In my opinion, music is an effective tool for communication across cultures. Why music is an effective tool for communication across cultures? Music is a universal language and folk music. Through music, we can learn a variety of languages. Music is such a powerful tool to influence people 's thought across different cultures. Music promotes the ethnicity and culture of the people.
First of all, music is a universal language. Another way to explain music is an expression of the mood, culture, history and traditions of the different countries. Nowadays, English is a common and universal language around the world, but for thousands of centuries, people from different areas, different countries of the world have made contact without sharing much or any common language. In my opinion, long time ago, people may use more music as a tool to communicate to each other. It is because not all people can study all the language all over the world such as English, and in more early stage, people don’t know how to speak. Voice and sound also types of music, through sound, people can spread out the message easily. According to Learn English Magazine (Web magazine), they said that: “Some researchers believe that early forms of human language developed from communication through music, and certainly music continues to fulfill many functions in different cultures today (Lynne).” Another example that why I point out that music is a universal language is like birds. Bird is a great example that can communicate by musical sound. Bird can communicate and “talk” to each other by musical sound even they didn’t have tongue and teeth like human to form words. Different
What is culture? Culture is defined as the characteristics of a particular group of people, defined by everything from language, religion, cuisine, social habits, inventions, traditions, technology, beliefs, music and arts (Kim Ann). In my opinion, music is an effective tool for communication across cultures. Why music is an effective tool for communication across cultures? Music is a universal language and folk music. Through music, we can learn a variety of languages. Music is such a powerful tool to influence people 's thought across different cultures. Music promotes the ethnicity and culture of the people.
First of all, music is a universal language. Another way to explain music is an expression of the mood, culture, history and traditions of the different countries. Nowadays, English is a common and universal language around the world, but for thousands of centuries, people from different areas, different countries of the world have made contact without sharing much or any common language. In my opinion, long time ago, people may use more music as a tool to communicate to each other. It is because not all people can study all the language all over the world such as English, and in more early stage, people don’t know how to speak. Voice and sound also types of music, through sound, people can spread out the message easily. According to Learn English Magazine (Web magazine), they said that: “Some researchers believe that early forms of human language developed from communication through music, and certainly music continues to fulfill many functions in different cultures today (Lynne).” Another example that why I point out that music is a universal language is like birds. Bird is a great example that can communicate by musical sound. Bird can communicate and “talk” to each other by musical sound even they didn’t have tongue and teeth like human to form words. Different
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