‘Where words fail, music speaks.’- Hans Christian Andersen
‘Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul’- Plato.
I know- intense. But I couldn’t agree with Plato more. While it might seem maximal to give music that much power, this guy knew what he was talking about.
Music is a universal topic that dissimilar people from numerous cultures, ethnic groups, and countries bond over. It is a language all of us can comprehend. By having an alluring effect on our emotions, music can break down our complex human emotions and issues into a quiet tune and a few words that many of us can relate to.
Music is limitless. It has no boundaries, varying from different genres in different languages that all of us collectively can enjoy. It can change the world and has done so multiple times. It has no exact definition and has different meanings and values in the lives of different people. For most of us, music is a hobby, passion, or pastime. An escape from reality and various problems we face in life.
The sound of music has changed over the past few decades and is a reflection of how different cultures and societal values have evolved. In the beginning, humans made music that closely impersonated the sounds they heard around them in nature in terms of tones and repetitions. The lyrics were linked to nature too. The lyrics often reflected the close relationship that indigenous cultures had with both the land and the wildlife. Of course, eventually, modern society did in fact lose this connection with nature.
Luckily, we Indians are blessed with distinguishing music assets mixed with diverse cultures. As for India, the birth of music, of sound itself is detected back to the origin of the universe. In agreement with Hindu mythology, the first-ever sound is the Naadbrahma (Brahma as Sound), which perceives the entire universe. It is believed to be the purest sound in the universe.
We’ve often heard our elders complain about the music that appears in modern music to be degenerating over time and losing its quality and missing sentiment. It is a well-built belief amongst our elders that the music recently produced is highly influenced by western flavors where the essence of ragas are completely missing and therefore deteriorating the quality of music made.
But the juveniles cannot be blamed. Whether it is India or any other part of the world, music has come a long way from classical to rock; from countryside to metal. I am positive of the fact that no one can deny the role of the generation gap which drives younger generations of Indians towards western genres like metal, hard rock, pop, jazz & party-mixes. The manner of living and the way of living has extensively developed since the 80s and trends are now completely different. The freshly converted minds just incline the latest fast, groovy, foot-tapping & deep-toned music instead of some good ol’ slow classical music.
I would like to conclude by saying that in the end, no one can account for whether the newly produced music in the entertainment industry is regressive or is evolving but it sure is changing, and that too very rapidly. Things change over time and no one can really grasp something and keep it the same forever. So why not enjoy this evolution of music instead of questioning it.
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