Music

I see music as a powerful force in the everyday life of most of the people. Different types of music have different influence on people, some entertains them, make them move where other music mediates them and defines social and cultural experience. Over all, I consider music as one of the unique factors that unite people from all over the globe.

Music does not have a fixed meaning, for example: music composed and developed in Europe produce different meanings in the Middle East. In addition, music is not a static culture form, it changes with time, space and context. It evolves constantly in order to accommodate people’s tastes. Nowadays, there are many different types of music around the world such as: Rai, Hip Hop, Techno…and a lot more, each type of music has a loyal group of people who will always listen to it. That’s how music play an important role in the articulation and construction of people’s identity. For example: you can easily differentiate between people who listen to heavy metal and others who listen to classic music. Usually heavy metal fans are very open, mostly they are dressed in black untidy clothes and they have tattoos all over their bodies. On the other hand people who listen to classic music are more conservative and mostly they are wearing high class suits. Hence, music is not only something people listen to. It has a huge effect on the way they live and communicate with others.

Music has changed a lot in the Middle East. In the previous century Arabic music was classical ordinary music. It used to be full of emotions, love and crucial meanings. In the past, only people with great voices used to sing, however, today any one can pay for producing a video clip and sing and that’s how the art of the Arabic music was destroyed. These days, most of the Arabic music is meaningless.

Watching all the new worthless video clips will influence the people’s values and way of thinking. New Arabic music and clips are all about the sexual relation between men and women, and that has a negative effect on our cultural principles. What is shown on T.V doesn’t describe the real Arabic love and life. Arab musicians and singers are just copying things from the west, and that’s totally wrong because East will never become as West. So here is the problem, the new open music is confusing us because it is creating new life that doesn’t exist.

Still there is a high quality Arabic music and people can listen to it and enjoy it. I think people should be more carful in choosing what they watch and listen to because music has a great influence on peoples' behaviors