Tri An Nguyen
Mrs. Cordes
AP English
24 April 2015
Cultural Globalization Today in the modern era exist a diverse amount of music around the world. Each nations and tribes has their own form of music culture developed over centuries. However, as the times passes by, the Age of Imperialism begins affecting a vast amount of countries as European countries and eventually, America take part in this period attempting to colonize underdeveloped locations and obtain its resources for their own use. Through the Age of Imperialism, countries affected by this era were forced to submit to the teachings of civilization and integrate into these invading nation’s culture and tradition. This leads to mixtures of culture between two different nations known …show more content…
The music in general has a consistency of improvisation, offbeat phrasing, and use of unique rhythmic instruments. The music are generally used to convey a spiritual or traditional message or to create an efficient working pace. In Africa, the “two prominent cultures include Xhosa and Zulu” (The Diversity of African Music). The Xhosa and the Zulu culture incorporates their language with fifteen unique vocal clicks into their music. The Zulu, however, focuses more on body movement relying on the rhythm of the action and beat of the music to display an image. This reliance on rhythm and language leads to the convention of drum language. While it is not known where it originated from, this convention is commonly used to communicate with tribe members and was heavily used in times of war among tribes. The talking drums are able to remain unique to each language as the instruments relays the speech patterns of their language. (Correlate to globalization and connection between this time and modern time) …show more content…
For instance, a majority of traditional music in Asia are primarily based off the Chinese heritage. From the earliest civilization, the “Chinese culture strongly influenced China’s neighbors at this time, especially Korea, Vietnam, and Japan” (Asia For Educators). The unification of China led to the Chinese imperialism time period where their spread of power mimics the Romans. With the states unified under the First Emperor of Qin’s All-under-Heaven, the influence of China affected the culture of these states. Korea, for example, managed to declare its independence from China, but under heavy influence from China, the preceding emperors can only take China’s form of government for their own. Even though some states have managed to declare independence from China, it was done after “centuries of direct Chinese imperial rule” (The Genesis of East Asia 168). Due to their immense influence, most countries that have started under China will retain some of the Chinese culture even if there is an attempt to deviate and create their own unique
Mrs. Cordes
AP English
24 April 2015
Cultural Globalization Today in the modern era exist a diverse amount of music around the world. Each nations and tribes has their own form of music culture developed over centuries. However, as the times passes by, the Age of Imperialism begins affecting a vast amount of countries as European countries and eventually, America take part in this period attempting to colonize underdeveloped locations and obtain its resources for their own use. Through the Age of Imperialism, countries affected by this era were forced to submit to the teachings of civilization and integrate into these invading nation’s culture and tradition. This leads to mixtures of culture between two different nations known …show more content…
The music in general has a consistency of improvisation, offbeat phrasing, and use of unique rhythmic instruments. The music are generally used to convey a spiritual or traditional message or to create an efficient working pace. In Africa, the “two prominent cultures include Xhosa and Zulu” (The Diversity of African Music). The Xhosa and the Zulu culture incorporates their language with fifteen unique vocal clicks into their music. The Zulu, however, focuses more on body movement relying on the rhythm of the action and beat of the music to display an image. This reliance on rhythm and language leads to the convention of drum language. While it is not known where it originated from, this convention is commonly used to communicate with tribe members and was heavily used in times of war among tribes. The talking drums are able to remain unique to each language as the instruments relays the speech patterns of their language. (Correlate to globalization and connection between this time and modern time) …show more content…
For instance, a majority of traditional music in Asia are primarily based off the Chinese heritage. From the earliest civilization, the “Chinese culture strongly influenced China’s neighbors at this time, especially Korea, Vietnam, and Japan” (Asia For Educators). The unification of China led to the Chinese imperialism time period where their spread of power mimics the Romans. With the states unified under the First Emperor of Qin’s All-under-Heaven, the influence of China affected the culture of these states. Korea, for example, managed to declare its independence from China, but under heavy influence from China, the preceding emperors can only take China’s form of government for their own. Even though some states have managed to declare independence from China, it was done after “centuries of direct Chinese imperial rule” (The Genesis of East Asia 168). Due to their immense influence, most countries that have started under China will retain some of the Chinese culture even if there is an attempt to deviate and create their own unique