Seeger outlines an approach toward understanding music in
its full context. He advocates the use
of general probing questions about the music, its audience, and the location
and time it is performed. Ultimately he
suggests that we need to approach music—people’s experience of music, the
sociology of music—from as many angles as possible. We must attempt to relate to the significance
people attribute to musical events by investigating our differing mental
representations of the music in its full context. Our
experience of music is shaped by our past experiences, communal memory, the location
and timing of the performance, our company, and other factors. These elements together generate our mental
representation, categorization, and the meaning we attribute to a musical
event.
Does a music-culture develop when these factors overlap and personal
significance gives way to a shared sense of meaning, a shared societal
representation and understanding of the music?
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