it is possible to categorise musics that we listen to into three broad bands : musics at home, in the community and abroad. these three bands, situations for encountering musics, also suggest three different angles. the first suggests an encounter on our own grounds, on our own terms, from our own cultural perspective, whatever that is defined to be. from the particular angle of the community, which includes formalised music education, multiple perspectives, as opposed to that identified from the first angle, are brought to bear. at this level, other music culture perspectives are juxtaposed, as it were on each other, with the consequence that multiple perspectives can coexist at the same time although individuals may extend their own perspectives on musics in the community. the final context suggests the imposition of a personal culture perspective on the musics of other cultures, on musics whose origin is traced to a foreign or alien source, to a place that is abroad. it would appear that as we can only be at one place at one time in a physical sense, when abroad, there may be only two main music cultural perspectives operating when we apprehend musics that we are relatively unfamiliar with - that is, our own, plus that in which the music is operating. however, this may be a simplified understanding of reality.
we can paint a scenario that involves what happens in our homes, at school and in the wider community. teenagers and other children, at home, have their own musical worlds that consist of what they engage with on their own, with others through the media, the internet, and so on. it would appear that children have a degree of choice in determining some of the musics they encounter in the wider community. but at school, a different aspect of the jigsaw is brought into place through the compulsory diet that they have little control or choice over, one that seems to be at odds with other aspects of their lives. to an extent, the musics that people encounter abroad, or musics from abroad need not be different from musics at home, perhaps, except for the fact that the encounter in the musics original home is more likely to be on a live basis. it would seem that we are obsessed with the origin of some musics, particularly non-western musics, and herein lies a masalah. however, for some people such musics are not alien or foreign ; rather, they may be additional musical cultures that they experience with which they are fully engaged, including even at home.
in the case of britain, the fact that it is, like many other countries of the world, a multicultural society perhaps needs to be fully accepted within an educational system which is still too narrowly skewed towards a particular perspective. this will need to change if formalised music education is to do justice to the rich and diverse musical traditions that have found their home in britain. when i went to britain to read for a degree in music, 2 the situation was very different. over a period of more than 25 years, i have experienced a changed climate within the wider community and, to an extent, in the educational system. however, i have found serious impediments in my attempts to promote the use of african musics in educational institutions during this period.
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