The Power Of Music: A Lifestyle And Cultural Phenomenon

Defining Music as a Lifestyle

What Is The Experiences In Dionysian Music Subcultures?

Thank you for coming. Today we are celebrating silver jubilee of our music school. I still remember twenty years ago, we had rented small place to impart music training to the first students who were highly keen as well as passionate about learning. Today we have branches at various places. The way I see it the entire credit goes to the people who are involved in making things happen who have been the inspiration to all of us.

Attention now! (Start the speech by playing music, turning off the lights, dancing a little). We all listen to the music, its part of our everyday lives.  Thus, I have never met anyone who has said they cannot stand music… and if I ever I would have called them out liars.

Music is a lifestyle. It has been a huge factor to my life. Not only does it serve as one of the biggest influence to the world but it has defined us a human beings.

Personally music has molded me to be the kind of person am today and the kind of individual I strive to be in the future. It gives strength which has enabled me to push forward and attain goals.

More often some do not where music is all about. It is a form of the art as well as the cultural activity (Mackley-Crump, 2015). It is a way of living to many individuals, they breathe music and they live the music (London, 2017). It is the lifestyle since they breathe it at every moment that passes and needless to mention they could sacrifice anything to attain the pinnacles of the success.

Music has had a crucial part to play in the Hindu culture and the mythology (Ulusoy, 2016). Example Lord Krishna, who was the 8^th incarnation to the lord Vishnu has been known as the Murliwala meaning the flute possessor, Deity Naarad always carried the Taanpura which was a long necked plucked instrument that had a string (London, 2017). This individual would always play it to entice Lord Vishnu. This instrument was regarded as a symbol of peace and the harmony.

Music has been one of the most precious gift to which was bestowed by God to the mankind; through it individuals can enjoy their leisure time and at the same time alleviate all of their burdens of life (Burkholder and Grout, 2014). According to the belief of the Hindu, music has evolved significantly from the single note and the seven octaves such as Saregama which is the root to the ragas or the forms of the music.

The Cultural and Mythological Significance of Music

Music is any form such as the instrumental or the vocal which has enjoyed by everyone. It could create harmony amongst the living human being, even the plants as well as animals could understand at the same time enjoy the beat, rhythm as well as harmony which is created by the musical sounds (Burkholder and Grout, 2014).

Choices of the music at times varies from one person to another some individuals might like the classical and some may prefer western,  some enjoys the film songs and some could be confined to glazals and the kawaallis (Burkholder and Grout, 2014). Each kind of this music has their own range of the depth as well as practioners which need to undergo on the rigid training along with the practices to master on the art. Individuals who are skilled in regards to any kind of the music form are referred to as the child of god (London, 2017). Music usually complements on one’s life and it has the capacity to energize individuals to their days of distress. 

I have learned that music is the lifestyle since it is equally valuable to every region. Ghazals and Kawwallis are usually the Muslim form of the music, jazz and pop are usually enjoyed in the Western culture (London, 2017). To my mind, music can teach individuals to be more compassionate as well as empathetic to others.

The good thing that is happening to the music it is now travelling across various borders and many individuals are now accepting each other’s culture and forms of the music with much zeal. This shows it is becoming our everyday lifestyle (London, 2017).

Many doctors believe that music together with the medication given to the patient it has the ability to treat people sooner (London, 2017). Music is an art form that has been recognized widely, accepted and at the same time appreciated globally irrespective of the language barrier. It is an important part to the civilization and culture.

In my opinion, music has helped many individuals to earn their livelihood, thus, social values have been attached to it. The history of the music is wide at the same time interesting, even though the specific origin of the music was not known, but certainly it was introduced to the human beings long time ago.

In the olden days, music was regarded as a luxury which was enjoyed by the royalties only in the society (Mackley-Crump, 2015). Some of the civilization practiced the music as a form of the religious significance and those t people that associated to it were highly respected in society. Gradually, it started to be recognized from its values and became popular globally. It can be enjoyed in the instrumental and the vocal forms.

The Importance of Music in Our Lives

We have often heard people say they cannot live without music. People say a lot of things…. Most of which are far from the truth. Nonetheless, when I say it is impossible to live without the music, I mean it truly. To be honest, I cannot remember the last time which I never listened to the music.

Music will remain to be one of the greatest forms of the arts in the years to come to numerous societies in the world. It will continue to be recognized and respected, and it is getting commercialized these days. So keep the convenience of the other individuals in your mind at the same time indulging to your favorite tunes, stay safe and nurture on your love to the music and truly music is lifestyle.

In this speech it has employed various tools and these tools would be used to analyse the speech. First part of the speech is on the introduction which uses personal story which sets out the tones which would be brought in the speech. There is introduction of the greeting and how far the music has come to present (David, 2014).. There has been use of the personal story to make the idea of the music and how it has come from. It sets out stage for the audiences to reflect on how far they have come to show the journey of transformation has not been easy to make music what it is today. This is the use of the Brookfield’s language trick of utilizing the personal story to set the stage for the speech.

Through the use of such narrative communication is derived to the audiences on the ideas in which the speech will talk about which enables them to have an idea and develop interest on this subject (Zori, Nosek and Musil, 2010). In this introduction, there was music that has been played, lights turned off which set the stage and draws the curiosity of the audience towards the subject (Nardi, 2017). There is also creation of the personal relationship which would be established between the speaker and the audiences.

To introduce on a given subject to the audience you need to draw their attention through identifying the type of audience you are dealing with, so that to distinguish on the ideas you will utilize to capture on their attention and enable them to understand (Müller and Turner, 2010). This idea opens up on the floor which then examine on the concept on the second paragraph on what music is all about.

The Variety and Range of Music Forms

In this speech it has utilized argumentative moves. These are some words and expressions which are used in the argumentative discussions and these texts usually indicate the type of the argument move which has been made (Jackson, 2003). There has been used of word such as in my opinion, to my mind, the way I see it, thus or therefore others are for example. These words usually introduce a standpoint and the use of because which is an argumentation. These words and expressions which refer to the argumentative moves such as putting forward a given standpoint as argumentative indicators (Morris, 2016). The use of these argumentative indicators shows that there has been a sign of a given argumentative move which has been in progress, but they do not constitute to the decisive pointer. The word therefore, has been used as the filler and it is next to argumentation. The word because has introduced an explanation. Depending on this context, the usage of the word has been sufficient reason to consider on the standpoint which has been introduced.

In this speech it has also used the Bloom Taxonomy critical thinking tools. The text in the speech can be classified into three hierarchical models which are used to classify the learning materials. In this speech it has combined different parts to make it a new whole (Morris, 2016). There are different paragraph that have ideas to how music is a lifestyle these paragraph are connecting to each other. It is easy to evaluate on the speech (Morris, 2016). One can easily judge on the value of the ideas which are presented and can analyze on each aspect which has been discussed. The ideas have been broken down into various parts such as the paragraph so that each idea can be presented on their own (Morris, 2016). There has application of the facts, rules and the concepts on to these ideas which are addressed in regards to this topic discussed. Through the speech it is much easy to understand on the speech since comprehending on the facts which are raised are easy. The language used is simple to be understood by different levels of the learners from the juniors to the seniors. It is much easy to remember on the ideas which have been raised since they apply to each person life.

The speech has also utilized repetition a lot. A word such as music has been the key word which has been used in the speech mostly. It is used more often to give the audience a grasp to the key claims that music its lifestyle…. Such as “music will remain to be the greatest form…. Music has had a crucial part to play.” This has been combined to the trick to assume the voice of many individuals which has been used in the last paragraph of the speech. Majority of the concepts have been discussed in third person all throughout the speech, apart from few places. The speaker to this speech has assumed the audiences share the same view as to what music is and assumed that music is loved by all, since it is a universal aspect to the mankind.

Music as a Tool of Compassion and Empathy

In conclusion, there has been use of the Grice’s 4 Conversational maxims criteria. These aspect stands for the quantity, quality, relation and the manner. On the aspect of quantity this speech is long and the content in the speech do follow a logical flow which is essential when delivering a lot of ideas to the audience (Mackley-Crump, 2015).  On the second aspect is on the quality, in this speech its aims is to persuade the audience that music is the lifestyle. The authors’ intention is to make the audience think like he does in regards to this topic.  On the aspect of the relation the information targets all the individuals who have interest in the music especially to the students who have the passion to do music (Ramazani and Jergeas, 2015).  On the last aspect is on the manner of the delivery. This speech has been delivered in a manner where there has been change in the tone at one point or another throughout the speech to effectively deliver on the concepts.

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