Around 1750 words excluding references
Original Question Below:
Your essay MUST include reference to your listening as an integral part of your essay argument.
CHOOSE ONE TOPIC:
1. "The way people understand and appreciate music, what they find beautiful or ugly, mellifluous or cacophonous, is a product of culture, not something universal." (Timothy Rice, 2004, Music in Bulgaria,
p.32).
Discuss this comment in relation to one or more of the musics of the world studied in this subject.
2. "[The] ability to freely change and invent new meanings for music is an important source of its cultural, social and political power." (Timothy Rice, 2004, Music in Bulgaria,
p.85).
Discuss this comment in relation to one or more of the musics of the world studied in this subject.
3. In a 1990 article, Appadurai comments that we have moved into "a new global cultural economy - a complex, overlapping, disjunc