posted by editor on May 2
Ethnic music describe the ways in which music expresses historical differences and constructs identities in a modern, urban society. It preserves culture, language, customs, social and family interaction from the past. Ethnic music assumes different forms that stretches across stylistic boundaries between folk, religious, and classical musics.
Ethnic music connects people to a selected component of its past but gives meaning to the present. Thus, ethnic music should be understood as changing and not static for through music, one can revisit his/her past. We can look at the ways in which ethnic musics have shaped people and continue to do so in transforming, but by no means eliminating, the ethnic origin shaped by generations.
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