African tribal music

s essay will show you, the connection with and use of music by the African tribal people, in comparison to its purpose in Western culture, has much more valuable spiritual significance.

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And what is it to us Westerners, a CD collection at most? Also, in America, some people put so much effort and faith into religion and spirituality, but without arts, especially music, it doesn't seem as though spirituality can truly be meaningful. On the other hand, in America, it seems as though we take music for granted. It is although the instruments used by the Africans are considered to be like people, and treated with major respect in the process of creating the sound that comes from them. African music such as this includes a lot of participation, but the training to learn it isn't "professional", like paying money to take lessons for a certain instrument in Western culture. In that way, I believe that my thinking is somewhat similar to that of the people in the African tribes. Till this day, tribes remain in Africa playing the same music as their ancestors did, only it's not always music to them. Traditional songs and musical instruments are not commodities separable from the flux of life" (Titon 76). Due to the fact that the!

re were so many different tribes in Africa, some that are still unknown till this day, each musical style is almost impossible to classify.

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Britannica Online. Individuality is important because each musician is different, but it's hard, even for experts, to be familiar with and make distinctions between all the different pieces that so many musicians of many tribes can create. Unlike the West, where most music is pretty much considered "art for art's sake", the tribal music of the African people serves a social function. It's more like a "society-wide process of enculturation…the pr!

ocess of learning one's culture gradually during childhood"(Titon 76) that teaches the people how to respond to it so naturally. The musical influences of the tribes really intertwined because of the constant migration and interactions between the people of the different tribes.

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