Blog Post 10: How do you think that other economic activities can transform music from the perspective of the negotiation between the global and the local that entail globalization processes?

Music is everywhere. If you listen closely you can hear crickets and birds singing beautiful hymns all day and night long if we just take the time to listen. This just proves that music is all around us and in everything we do. The popularity of music has really increased over the last few decades. Before music was only really heard live and there was no way of recording the music so not everyone had access to music. Now that music festivals and various types of live streaming music are the most popular among our society, people from all over can listen to different types of music. Even the sound of instruments are localized on the internet and can be combined with numerous other sounds to create a beat. Garage band is a popular app used to combine different types of instruments in any type of way to create a beat you like. It can be modified and mimicked and you can even voice record.

I have not come from a very musically influenced family. None of parents, cousins, grandparents, or friends even play instruments or are involved in a school music program or choir. So needless to say I have not been as involved in music like some people. This is actually my first ever music class that I have learned material about music instead of the music class I took in elementary school where I just played small instruments like drums and sang songs. I think a huge part that has helped contribute to broadening musical tastes have occurred from migration. Reggae music was not popular in Great Britain until Jamaicans were leaving Jamaica to find a better living. Even how reggae was started in Jamaica was a huge part to how music was started all over. In a sense it was music that hoped to spark a tremendous change in how they were treated. When people migrate they take their culture and their back ground with them. When they arrive in the new area they most likely listen to that music and probably the new music around them because they hear it. For example, I grew up listening to 80’s rock and country music. If I were to ever leave the United States, I would likely take that musical taste with me and my family would then live in our new home and listen to those same genres of music and my children would listen to my music and local music. But the cool part is my children would listen to new music and share my music with their friends as well creating this globalization of music because it would continue to spread with the more people it came into contact with. So for me I think economically as people travel and go to visit or live in new places the musical tastes will merge and create new music as well as spread music around the world. Hybridization would occur with in different musical genres as well as globalization because people are migrating to a new nation.