Caleb Holley: The Role Of Diversity In Music

Since ancient times until the presents, music has been a key component of any culture and has reflected the people’s world perception. All important events in people’s lives, i.e. traditional rituals, holidays, and funerals, have always been accompanied by music. Also music can be divided into many different genre, like Rap, Pop, Rock, R&B. Moreover, music nowadays could be an important part of our lives and also different people listen to different music. Black people like rap and R&B, white people like rock, pop and asian people perhaps they have their own cultural music. Different context, different race, different culture bring us a diversity in music. However, the question arises if variety is what people really need from music. Perhaps, in the pursuit of variety musicians forget about the quality and cultural aspect of the music which they present to the public. …show more content…
Music fans from almost any corner of the world can get access to the latest music products, download them for free, and enjoy if it is worth it. The same opportunities are offered to musicians – they can create and demonstrate their products through the Internet to the widest audience. Caleb Holley (who is this?) remarks that just one or two decades ago young and talented musician had to go through a testing ordeal of the entertainment industry bosses: “the A&R acted as a necessary bridge between the corporate label-heads and the wide-eyed, if somewhat naive musician” (Holley). Without the A&R approval, a musician could not proceed. Moreover, the A&R made a decision what this musician’s music should be like and what strategies should be taken to make that music a success. With two opposite example above can show us about the diversity in music, (so back then was music less diverse and uniform in style?) the musicians nowadays do not need the A&R approval anymore, they can fell free to create their own