Reporte de la semana cultural

Topic: Music, society and musical identity (Reflection)

1. “Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit.” ~Someone. This quote just expresses one of the music points of views, and we all have a story to tell about the music, in some way music has changed lives or even makes life different and full of emotions.

2. Our society and principally youth people are focus on music, but I do have to say that everyone loves music, in different ways, and it comes from instrumental classic until heavy metal, each person has their own criteria about it, some like music really loud when other people listen really low, and so for this music affects society in a good way and also without no doubt in a bad way, but we as a listeners have a importance role on this, since we can help society to become a better place or make it worse, we need to understand what we are listening, or if we are musicians what we are projecting to the listeners, I see it in the way that I used to play in a band and we always made a effort to project what we wanted to, not just giving the audience what they want, because for me that becomes just commercial, not really making it with a strong feeling that the audience can feel, and so the musicians have an important role because they are the ones who “have the power” to chance lives the music is beautiful and it is a wonderful complement of our world.

3. I strongly believe that music makes us have an identity because when you listen a kind of music makes treat life that way and also makes you even dress up different, but all these complements are just ideologies, because that people most of the time want to be noticed they want to call the attention, some of them take music as a escape from reality, and they feel that the music is the only one who can understand what they are going through I had heard a lot of experiences of that and I am one of them as well, when I was 14 I used to listen music in a way to escape from my problems so I found out with this how powerful and how awesome is the music, because the listener feels identified with the music making you feel that nothing else matter, than what you are going through but when you stop listening to that song you go back to reality, so in this case I say that we need to be carefully on this, because if you listen pretty close on any song you like or sing you will find out that every song has a underlying message on it, and you need to have your mind focus on what you believe since this is a way to make your thesis falls down, and sometimes this happen unconsciously, and we do not even noticed it, so this is a way for you to follow types of beliefs, and it could be really dangerous if we do not learn how powerful music is.

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5. If we mentioned music types, sociologies, identities we will always find out that all of this are full of ideologies when for me has one meaning for other has another one, so as my opinion I say that music in society has an important role to make people act or even live better, music helps you to be happy, sad or even mad, music for me is full of feelings, and that is why every person picks they own kind of music they want to hear or they like, because that makes you different from other people, the sounds are very important but if you do not learn how to use it, can destroy you in minutes, it is a shame that some music helps people to commit suicide this should not be that way, but it is a reality and it happens every day, we need to make conscience and not let everything gets into our minds and hearts, we are the one who pick but sometimes we need to wake up, and realize how good or how bad the music can affects me, a song could even hail a person, music goes back and for , and we will not be able to live without music, music takes you to a lonely place or to a place of happiness.

6. And I would like to end this Essay thinking on this Quote. “It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. “ ~Benjamin Britten. Music shows a real cruelty, but at the same time a real beautiful sound.